Word: bloodedness
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What is exasperating about all this is that the novel so gapingly succumbs to the pompous middle-class standards of its own characters. Inflated Bel, a meddling woman busily climbing the social ladder; dough-mouthed Mungo and his horsy noble-blooded bride; rattle-brained David unable to decide between love...
Back in Ecuador in 1933, he settled down, married a local society belle-and found the family fortunes in low estate. He proceeded to make the vast Plaza ranch north of Quito a model for Ecuador, brought in the country's first combine, six tractors, and blooded Holstein-Friesian...
Joan's story, told in flashbacks, is cluttered with woman's magazine heartthrobs and too much elementary psychology. Her trouble really started when she fell possessively in love with David (Van Heflin), a cold-blooded man who can take his women or leave them. Joan got left. She...
Then up rose redhaired, freckled Neil, wounded officer-veteran of World War II, and a man likely some day to be president of Grand Republic's Second National Bank. He said: "I have learned that my mother . . . is descended from . . . an ancestor . . . who was . . . a full-blooded Negro. Which...
Warm-blooded animals get around this difficulty in various ways. Some of the more primitive creatures become cooler at certain seasons, so that their testes can manufacture sperm. In higher animals the testes, contained in the scrotum, outside the body, are cooled by the air to a temperature lower than...