Word: hairless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...instructive if somewhat unsightly object lesson in the laws of genetics has been provided in recent months by M. Etienne Letard of the National Veterinary School at Alfort, France. M. Letard has bred a race of hairless cats. One or two hairless kittens appear from time to time in the litters of two perfectly normal Siamese parents...
...reached the U. S. last week, M. Letard has mated each of the parents to other cats but from such unions has never obtained a naked kitten. A naked kitten, after growing up and being mated to a normal cat, has uniformly normal litters. But when two of the hairless cats were mated to each other, they had an entirely hairless litter. The hairlessness was thus seen to be a recessive Mendelian character. By mating one hairless animal with another, Dr. Letard has obtained a true-breeding strain. Up to last week no buyers had appeared...
...hate to have these Indians get recognition! Why, it would be the end of them!" Her first stop was at an adobe hut where a blanketed full-blooded Indian named Tony Luhan sat on a hassock beating a drum and singing. Tony was a large-featured, husky, hairless, sedate man with "nice eyelids" and beautifully plucked eyebrows. When he finally looked up, Mabel "saw his was the face that had blotted out [husband] Maurice's in my dream." Tony said he had seen her before too-also in a dream...
...hundred of the Fiana came out of the beast alive, including the son of the King of Greece, but their clothes were gone, and they were hairless thereafter. Fionn Loch, White Lake, had been the name of the lake where the monster resided. From that day on, it was called Loch Dearg, Red Lake. Loch Dearg is in Donegal, in Ireland...
...Service, whose activities have been recorded so successfully in fiction by Author Somerset Maugham. Herein Ashenden (John Gielgud) is seen at the start of his career, stationed in Switzerland, where Author Maugham himself functioned as a Wartime spy. Detailed, with the assistance of a gruesome character known as the "Hairless Mexican" (Peter Lorre), to track down a German agent en route to Arabia, Ashenden proceeds with more pluck than perspicacity. Nonetheless, having inadvertently permitted the Hairless Mexican to push a harmless tourist (Percy Marmont) over a cliff, Ashenden and a beautiful blonde English spy (Madeleine Carroll) finally discharge their mission...