Word: pelican
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...investigate. Two days after the first reports, W. J. McDonald, supervisor of the Chugach National Forest, confirmed the discovery. He found the animal to be only 24 ft. long, resembling a huge lizard with a long tail and tapering head. He said it had a snout like a pelican's beak, a head like an elephant. He found no fur. Six feet of flesh were preserved. Foxes and Eskimo dogs had eaten the rest. Since scientists were still puzzled, part of the huge carcass was taken to Cordova. So soon as weather conditions permit, Dr. Bunnell and helpers will...
...great-uncle revolve in his cerements. One-time painter, newspaperwoman, reviewer, correspondent for the Ministry of Information during the War, she has also written: Tom Fool, Many Latitudes, Moonraker, Murder and its Motives. Author Jesse is married to Harold Marsh Harwood, with whom she collaborated on a play: The Pelican. She lives in Sussex, likes yachting...
...orang-outang who closed her shutters when visitors bored her, who politely returned Author Eipper the peels and pips of a gift-orange. Mr. Eipper next looked at the pale faery eyes of a Bengal tigress, fixed on distance like those of some Eastern image. He watched the pelican gulp fish. He sat down and let four orang-outang infants clamber over him and played with them as an equal. From the rear he looked at the young elephants- "like forlorn village children in the Sunday pants of a corpulent parent." Only the chimpanzees disturbed him. Said...
...Pelican have been sighted in remote spots of Long Island...
...sighed a little, perhaps, at the transitoriness of all things when the first knell of all the college humor in College Humor was pealed. Eight comics of the West Coast, led by the Stanford Chaparral and the California Pelican, made declarations of independence announcing that because the great faith of humor had been broken and the college campus represented as a place of flasks and caresses, they would no longer permit College Humor to reprint their funnin...