Word: beastes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...productive artists, is highly irregular. The best is almost worthy of that of his model and hero, the late great Paul Gustave Doré. Among the better Hell drawings is one entitled "Clock Conscious." Two other Hell drawings of note: "The Idiot Giant War," an obscene, pinheaded, hog-faced beast with ostrich feathers in his rump, gulping fistfuls of men from a great bowl ; "Trying to End it All," a pale and flabby Hellion, who has just slashed ineffectively at his nude paunch with a dagger...
...daughter, a Mr. W. Urwick Goodbody stared goggle-eyed through his field glasses for 40 min. at a swimming creature with a long, thin neck, a small head and, he thought, eight humps on its back. The Chief Constable of Aberdeenshire forbade Scotsmen to take potshots at the beast. Local innkeepers and tradesmen figured the monster had put into their pockets ?5,000 in new trade...
Interest grew feverish last fortnight when M. A. Wetherell, fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, Fellow of the Zoological Society, an African big-game hunter, breathlessly announced that he had found a strange, fresh footprint on Loch Ness's banks. Cried he: "It is a four-fingered beast and has feet, or pads, about eight inches across. I should judge it to be a very powerful soft-footed animal about 20 ft. long...
...company, as No. i whiskey man, he cherished the hope that it might some day have the swank of Britain's DCL. Competition would be terrific and rum was a Demon but all he wanted was a fair opportunity to saw the horns off his beast...
...mink is a long-bodied, short-legged, arch-backed member of the weasel family which likes nothing better than a fight. Minks fight each other, kill and eat almost any bird, fish or non-carnivorous beast smaller than themselves, some larger. In captivity they are clean, hardy, except for an occasional chirp almost noiseless. They need one meal a day, chiefly meat and fish. They like to swim but can do without it. Almost any country place where autumn weather is brisk will do for a mink farm...