Word: bullfrog
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Germany. Berliners caroling "Go pinch the bullfrog's tail!" continue to find this command an expressive equivalent for "Tell it to the Marines...
...Erie, Pa., high-school children (watched by a chemistry instructor) set out to investigate. Filling a bowl with equal parts of whisky and water, they placed therein a red perch. It lived four seconds. A bullfrog lasted 13 seconds, a bass one minute, a sunfish four minutes. Then a tadpole was dropped into the bowl. It lived...
...serves once more to remind us that here is a novel experiment in music. Several years ago, when Dr. Archibald T. Davison took charge, college glee clubs were as negligible as could well be imagined. The literature available to them included "The Owl and Pussy Cat" and "The Bullfrog on the Bank," with "Kentucky Babe" thrown in for the classical taste, and it included very little else. In fact, most people regarded college glee clubs as in the same category as measles epidemics and grasshopper plagues--as afflictions sent by God, that is--and they resigned themselves to the inevitable...
...hopeful of all the matters yet taken up is the stand which one member has bravely taken against children's stories. Here is indeed a step forward. What a multitude of sins would go with the extinction of Johnny Smith and his splendid promptness at school, or Bully the Bullfrog with his fearful war-cry, or the Fairy Prince who was so kind to Freddie While the radio is being controlled by these same measures Mr. J. H. Hammond has perfected inventions which may make it useful. Many of these he has turned over to the government, among them...
...largest of the frogs is the bullfrog, which begins life as a tadpole. When small, they live entirely on vegetable food, but when older they devour insects, which are caught by means of their long tongues covered by a sticky fluid. There are also the spring frogs, leopard frogs, and marsh frogs, all much alike, but characterized by difficult markings. The wood frog lives on land, and is difficult to catch except when it goes to the water to lay its eggs...