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...BIRD LIFE AT THE POLE?Wolcott Gibbs ?Morrow...
...humor, ornithologically considered, consists largely in giving somebody the bird: cuckoo, mocking-bird or pompous ostrich. Funnyman Thurber's is half-ostrich, half-cuckoo; Funnyman Gibbs's is all mocking-bird...
...observer had remarked that the plane behaved much as an alighting bird breasts the wind with its wings to check its speed, the comparison would have been more than poetical. The wings of the biplane, adjustable in flight, did just that. Lower and upper wings are rigidly connected with struts, remain in the same relation to each other. But by a hand-crank in the pilot's cockpit, the lower wing can be moved fore & aft, pendulum-like, through an arc of 14 degrees, tilting the upper wing to the same degree. About to land, the pilot sets...
...bird of war is not the eagle, but the stork."-The Rev. Charles Francis Potter, Manhattan...
...Bird-girl heroine of W. H. Hudson's novel, Green Mansions...