Word: cott
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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LeROY VAN COTT Yellowstone Park...
LONG, LONG AGO-Alexander Wooll-cott- Viking...
...juiciest borrowed plums in public with a happy little verbal smirk that meant: "What a smart boy am I." Last month he did it again (posthumously) in Long, Long Ago, a very satisfactory second course to his highly comestible While Rome Burns (TIME, March 12, 1934). Most of Wooll-cott's plums are still on the sugary side, but the best ones have a pleasantly astringent...
Disguise. Some animals, says Cott. "are impostors rather than self-effacers." Typical examples...
...Cott quotes a fellow naturalist: "In . . . Tanganyika a small moth resembling a bird-dropping was not uncommon. On one occasion I observed what I thought to be one on a leaf, but after a close examination from a distance of only a few inches I discovered (to my own satisfaction) that it was after all only a bird-dropping. Just as I turned away the said bird-dropping flew...