Word: dweller
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...arranges a rendezvous with the kidnappers but they are frightened off by the appearance of some casual motorcyclists. Miss Fane appeals for help by press and radio, even talks through amplifiers while flying over the length & breadth of California. Her words are heard by a hearty, featherbrained shack-dweller (Alice Brady) who grows suspicious of some mean-looking people who have moved in nearby with a baby. She sells them milk, gabbles at them. They are on the verge of killing the baby when the shack woman snatches it away, eludes their shots, escapes in a battered auto mobile...
...periophthalus (eyewinker) is a pop-eyed dweller along Eastern shores. At a distance it looks like a big tadpole. It has well-developed eyelids which wink. Powerful muscles enable it to use its pectoral fins like arms in hoisting itself a little way up wide-based tropical trees. When the periophthalus wishes to it can lift the front part of its body with these fins, gaze solemnly around, blinking like a dowager basking on her elbows at the beach...
...fate that he determined to write a really microscopically fair biography of him. In spite of this unnecessary ring-around-a-rosy, the facts of the story gradually emerge. Roe was an ordinary but wide-eyed, simple young man. When he married Lucille, became a father, Manhattan apartment-dweller, traveling salesman for a big publisher, he thought everything was fine. But Lucille's clay was commoner than his. Her jealousy and his naivete combined to topple him from grace. Without altogether falling in love he became very very fond of Minnie. When he set up in business for himself...
...which he has often yarned before, Author Maugham spins a tale that in less sardonic hands would be a melodrama. Eye-witness of the story is Dr. Saunders, an Englishman who for some English reason is a pariah to his kind and has become an opium-smoking, suspiciously bachelor dweller among Chinese. An able eye specialist, he has a large practice. On a lucrative visit to a far-away trader, he runs into two dubious Australians, gets a lift on their lugger to another island. Captain Nichols, skipper of the boat, is a shifty but unashamed scoundrel. Blake...
...last was the most emphasized at this year's show. A model schoolhouse was erected, complete with desks and elaborate exhibits made by nimble-fingered children. Each of the Manhattan apartment-dwellers who filed through the building was handed a little pamphlet warning him that to preserve the country's wild flowers he must never pick pink Lady's Slipper, Indian Moccasin, Liverleaf, Turk's-cap lily, Lady's Tresses, Rattlesnake Plantain. In moderation the Garden Club allows the picking of Grass of Parnassus, New Jersey Tea, Bluets, Clammy Azalea, Mad-Dog Skullcap and Virgin...