Word: frogged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pincus' newest trick was a modification of the late (1859-1924) Jacques Loeb's method of producing fatherless sea urchins by soaking sea urchin eggs in very salty water, of producing fatherless frogs by pricking frog eggs with a needle. Dr. Pincus soaked some rabbit ova in brine. Other rabbit ova he heated to 113° F., about 10° above normal. When he placed salted or heated ova in the fallopian tubes of rabbits, the rabbits became pregnant. Too impatient to wait 33 days for normal parturition, he killed the does, slit them open, found well-developed...
...name of his Social Credit (TIME, Sept. 2, et seq.). Taking pen in hand, the Major resigned his $10,000 per annum job as Alberta's adviser, canceled his proposed voyage to oversee the setting up in Alberta of Social Credit. This tended to leave stranded the rotund, frog-eyed school principal and radiorating lay preacher William ("Bible Bill") Aberhart who won Alberta's last election and its Premiership by promising $25 per month in Social Credit to every bona fide citizen of the province. Premier Aberhart, whose detractors now derisively call him "Abie," spent the week getting...
Only European observer to pipe another tune was Columnist George de la Fouchardiere of Paris' Oeuvre: "It reminds one somewhat of the frog who dived into the pond to avoid getting wet in the rain. . . . Our gangster industry is extremely flourishing. . . . Nor are children any more secure here than in the U. S. ... It may be that citizens of the U. S. are in some measure worthy descendants of convicts deported from England, but inhabitants of old Europe are also worthy descendants of the heroic bandits of the Middle Ages...
Like the antics of Flipper the Frog...
...while he was alive, the picture presents a Hollywood name which may one day take its own place in cinema's sun. That, at 59, Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb becomes a minor cinema star is not entirely due to the fact that the Cobb countenance closely resembles a bull frog's or that he can comically contort his vast physiognomy. Author Cobb possesses, in addition, the same cinematic quality which assisted his great & good friend Will Rogers to stardom: the inability to be anything but himself...