Word: beastes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rose Dr. Kung. In perfect English he told the assembled foreigners that in the Chinese zodiac cycle, the old year was represented by the timid rabbit, but the new, auspiciously, by the angry dragon-China's patron beast, sharp of claw and smoky of breath. From a huge clock over a trapdoor at one end of the room sprang a man dressed as a rabbit. A harangue was made on his record during the year. At the stroke of midnight emerged a laughably fierce dragon made of tinsel and crepe, glistening with Chinese lanterns, borne aloft and twisted...
Phoneman Moore wears a red toupee, neither smokes nor drinks. Despite the fact that he has scores of friends and once belonged to every available lodge, club and fraternity in the Thumb District, he thinks he is antisocial. Says he: "I am no company for man or beast...
...Alexander Hamilton's classic line: "Your people, Sir, is a great beast...