Word: americanus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...liberal sprinkling of headline stories of the period, and a deal of color which will call up a pleasant nostalgia in those who like to look back, this is by no means a historical novel of the Roosevelt years. Nor is it a typical story of "Metropolitan Americanus, Middle Class, White Collar." Amy may be unremarkable and typical enough, but Husband Lyle is a Harvard A.B. (cum laude), son of a millionaire father who committed suicide in the '29 crash, and of a dipsomaniac mother with blue-dyed hair. By leaning heavily on these and other glamorous characters, Author...
Word of a rich fish came last week from Cape Town. The fish is the source of an extract 800 times richer in vitamin A than the best cod-liver oil. The 60-lb. fish, commonly called the "bloubiskop" by South African fishermen, is the bafaro (Polyprion americanus). A thimbleful of its liver oil has enough vitamin A to supply a whole family for eight months...
...armed the Republic. He had kept faith with the people. In a general's uniform, he stood for the civilian substance of this democratic society. Civis Americanus, he had gained the world's undivided respect. In the name of the soldiers who had died, General George Catlett Marshall was entitled to accept his own nation's gratitude...
Climax of this historical build-up was a horrible example: the dismembered body of a comfortable old-fashioned overstuffed easy chair which lay behind the bars of a big animal cage under a life-size photograph of Gorilla Gargantua. Said an accompanying placard: "Cathedra gargantua, genus americanus. Weight when fully matured, 60 pounds. Habitat, the American Home. Devours little children, pencils, small change, fountain pens, bracelets, clips, earrings, scissors, hairpins, and other small flora and fauna of the domestic jungle. Is far from extinct...