Word: fauna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Toad Disney is back where he belongs-in the world of inspired fauna and improbable flora. J. Thaddeus Toad, madcap scion of an ancient family of landed British amphibians and a passionate gadgeteer, comes near being one of his liveliest, most lovable creations. Narrated with crisp anonymity by Basil Rathbone, the film is packed with memorable moments: Toad chugging about on his rump in delirious imitation of a motorcar; his flight from jail through a dark blue night stitched red with running gunfire; the defeat of the thieving weasels in the epochal battle of Toad Hall. This lighthearted, fast-moving...
...dazzle of colored lights, the impressionists brought painting smack up to the retina. Picasso carried the same process a step further, painting what was back of the eyeball, inside his head. "[In the Picasso school] the eyes, instead of absorbing things, are converted into projectors of private flora and fauna. Before, the real world drained off into them; now, they are reservoirs of irreality...
Song of India (Columbia) offers a sepia-tinted view of Sabu, onetime Elephant Boy, presiding over a whole jungleful of exotic fauna &. flora. He is especially fond of tigers, which he fondles like outsize tabby cats. He is on intimate terms with all the other jungle beasts and is determined to protect them from the wholesale poachings of a progressive Indian prince (Turhan Bey) in search...
...does Professor Edward S. Deevey explain it all? Well, says he, during the fourth glacial age the flora and the fauna of England and of Ireland, which at that time were part of the European continent, took the cold and perished. Then the ice melted and the sea rose isolating Ireland and England. Fast moving little hedgehogs, shrews and stoats came galloping from Europe to Ireland across a narrow bridge of land before the sea closed in. As for the slower snakes, they got only as far as England. And that, should the professor be right, was no better than...
Paris was as gay as ever. The dressy set had recovered from the Four Seasons Ball, and was studying pictorial evidence of the shindig's stylish fauna & flora: Britain's Lady Diana Duff Cooper, wife of the former ambassador to France, as a sad unicorn; Couturier Jacques Fath and Mme. Fath as tame tiger and roe, and Schiaparelli, in something she had run up herself as a carefree radish...