Word: guinness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Guinéo, son of Ti-Coyo, is a Martinique moppet with the congenital amorality of a growing barracuda. He comes by his wicked ways naturally, since Daddy Ti-Coyo and Grandfather Cocoyo are born thieves who have come up in their island world by means that normally lead to the guillotine. Now respectable, they live on a prosperous seaside plantation. Their chief idiosyncracy is that they keep Manidou, a huge pet shark, in a specially built tank that has an outlet...
...stretch of imagination, be made to recall his grandfather's mastery of color. But the real tear-squeezer of the show was twelve-year-old Célina Tai's crudely drawn portrait entitled (after a couple of false starts) "Mon grand-père Paul Gau-Guin," and copied from a Gauguin self-portrait...