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Instead of bringing tales of mountainous wintry seas, floating derelicts, or "bootleg" pirates, Captain John Roberts of the White Star liner Baltic has sought to vary the season's program with a description of the discovery of a sea monster in mid-Atlantic. Twelve feet long and nine feet around, of dark brown or black color, ears and snout similar to that on a pig--it seems to be a monster not otherwise known outside of the medieval "Bestiaries...
Recent reports of unrecorded sea-monsters are more common than one would suppose. A creature seen off Llandudno, like a long, undulating water-snake on mammoth scale, was convincing to the eyes of many beholders. Stories of a similar monster were so current along the American coasts during the last century that the hypothetical beast won the soubriquet of "American Sea-Serpent". Only last year, the repeated tales from South America of a "prehistoric" reptile sporting in the waters of a lake in the Andes, set zoologists agog and even stimulated a searching-party, which has not yet made...
...doubtful success. 10,000 citizens of Essen have met in a giant mass-meeting to protest the French "violation of the treaty of Versailles", but have been quieted by advice from the government that resistance would be futile. Yet that same government is reported to have called for a monster parade of protest, in which all loyal sons of the Vaterland will march up Unter den Linden--brandishing umbrellas, no doubt, and shouting "Ich protestiere" with the full convictions of prejudice...
...scene of Hugo's story, which was actually attacked by a gigantic octopus. One tentacle, grasping the mast, almost upset the boat before the tough feeler could be backed off with an axe; another reached up and clutched a man; and only after an hour's battle was the monster forced back into...
...long time were encouraged and practiced by our historians and biographers. "I say, don't you hate that damned Washington?" Rufus Choate is said to have said over a table at the Parker House. He meant the flat and rigid Byzantine enshrined Washington, the "faultless monster" of seventy years ago. A human, intelligent, and peccaole Washington has taken the place of that image. Professor Hart curiously mentions Washington's love of buying lottery tickets among his defects. At least one building in the Harvard Yard was built in part with the proceeds of a lottery. Schools, academies, colleges, roads, even...