Word: darwinian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...horrible Darwinian implications of the whole display, though, are too great to leave one's conscience unburdened, particularly when one owes his very existence to some of these stuffed species. Perhaps the zoologists have tried to laugh away any feelings of guilt, with the Proboscis Mankey as the butt of their joke. Like Rostand writing of Cyrano, the placard describes Proboscis as of "large size, bright colors, and grotesque nose . . . curiously elongated and flexible . . . The special use to which he puts it is doubtful...
Died. Dudley Field Malone, 68, who made news all through the '20s as a big-time lawyer in Manhattan and Paris, a friend of celebrities, a mixer-in-politics and a taker-up-of-causes (feminism, persecuted Reds, Tennessee Darwinian John T. Scopes); of a heart ailment; in Culver City, Calif. Seldom in the limelight since the early '30s, Malone became a Hollywood lawyer, played Winston Churchill in the 1943 movie Mission to Moscow ("All lawyers and politicians are actors at heart...