Word: faunas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Against a background of pythons, armadilloes, vampire-bats, and other interesting fauna, the protagonists of "Jungle Virgin" give a new, exciting, neolithic twist to the love-triangle, the title character keeping her dubious claim largely because the outside corner, a real cad, confines himself to the oldfashioned bear hug. Tita, an uncommonly puny hero, though ferocious enough when need be, finally finds the villain making advances in a tree, after having kidnapped a baby elephant. He makes a brilliant tackle, and all ends happily when the villain falls into the paws of a conveniently waiting leopard. As far as anyone...
...main articles of furniture are the icebox and the telephone. . . . The main meal is held in the middle of the night in the kitchen, and consists of a glass of milk and cold chicken from the icebox. . . . The fauna of America consists mainly of the horse and the cairn terrier; now and then the discerning eye may detect, in the distance, a stampede of cows. The flora is largely confined to the orchid and the long-stemmed rose. The rose is a peculiarly interesting variety, having extraordinary lasting qualities and no thorns...
...FLORA & FAUNA...
...geologists with Rear Admiral Richard Byrd, who feels responsible for Antarctica, are more imaginative. Somewhere in Antarctica's forbidding interior, they speculated, there may be a hidden valley heated to tropical balminess by volcanic energy. There-just possibly-unknown fauna may be nibbling at unknown flora...
...fancies itself the Athens of America, was crammed to its Beacon Street attics with scientists: 5,000 members of the Triple-A S (American Association for the Advancement of Science) in convention assembled. There were psychologists, mycologists, physicists, ecologists, and other genera. They jammed hotel lobbies, mystified the indigenous fauna with polysyllabic shop talk...