Word: beastes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...afternoon, indignity was piled on indignity. Between affronts, Woody lugged bed clothes, changed white shirt for grey, shut tled to & from the cadet store with supplies, learned about demeanor and demerits, drew a rifle, drilled, ran, crept, crawled, fell in but never out. When he finally stretched out in Beast Barracks that night, he understood exactly what they had meant at Annapolis when they spoke of "Hell on the Hudson." How Many Days, O Catiline? In Beast Barracks, plebes are confined for two weeks; they are then supposed to be sufficiently polished to be fit company for the rest...
...such items as Philip Evergood's Rubber Raft, a war footnote in which two helpless, parched men sprawl on a raft surrounded by voracious sharks; Atlantic Pastorale, a surrealist ballet-in-seaweed by Leon Kelly; Darrel Austin's spellbinding half-dream of a mountain lion, The Great Beast; William Cropper's satirical Art Patrons...
These are some of the conclusions about animal behavior reached by the late G. Kingsley Noble, onetime curator of experimental biology at Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History, and now published by his widow and longtime coworker, Ruth Crosby Noble, in The Nature of the Beast (Doubleday Doran, $2.75). A few of the book's assertions were established by experiment. Readers are asked to accept the rest on faith in the Nobles' long observation and deductive powers. Some other Noble findings...
...lycanthropologists go further, insist that the genuine werewolf has no tail at all, and that its clothes can be found not far from its kill. If struck by iron or steel, the skin on the forehead of a true werewolf splits and the naked man pops out. If the beast is freezing cold, however, it is invulnerable to everything but balls of elder pith or bullets made of inherited silver...
...flaming stake had been driven through Germany's heart, and by the laws of sorcery this should quiet the beast. In outward appearance Germany, once the most highly integrated nation of the Old World, was a quartered corpse. Perhaps 50% of Germany's proud cities were wrecked...