Word: albatross
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hand, listening to a pale, grave, calm President (see p. 11), possible attacks on that aggressive defense went through his mind. By week's end one thing was clear about the isolationist strategy: the old bogey of the House of Morgan was to be hung like an albatross around Franklin Roosevelt's neck...
...discussions of Mr. Beebe's first deep-sea fishing, a comparison of the flight of pelicans and cormorants, a spirited defense of vultures and well-chosen excerpts from the works of other naturalists. One of these, Dr. L. H. Matthews' description of the mating habits of the albatross, reads like something by James Thurber. Albatross mating, it appears, is "no rough-and-tumble affair as with the house spar-row"; the males "gather around one female and bow to her, bringing the head down close to the ground. As they do this they utter a harsh groaning sound...
...transatlantic service; last week's flight of the Mercury was a simple military experiment. Nonetheless, the Mercury will twice more shuttle across the Atlantic from Foynes to Montreal and Port Washington. More serious items on Imperial Airways' transatlantic schedule: five flights by the De Havilland four-motor Albatross, four flights by the Cabot, a seaplane of the same genus as the Caledonia and the Cambria which made ten flights...
Planes. More for spectacle than for sales at last week's Show were such ships as the Navy's Grumman fighter, Sever-sky's pursuit ship, the Douglas observation plane, TWA's "Overweather" Northrop and the glider Albatross. Like Ziegfeld show girls, these unique planes drew first looks, but more serious attention went to the chorus of sturdy little troopers lumped by the name "flivver planes." First sale was an Arrow monoplane, powered with a Ford V8, which went to Negro Perry Newkirk for $1,500. Even cheaper was the Taylor Cub, over...
...that time a member of the crew of the U. S. S. Albatross (ocean soundings, volcanic research and the history of the fish of various kinds...