Word: hides
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...yellow markings (although some other palatable animals adopt conspicuous markings in order to resemble unpalatable or poisonous varieties). Studies of 200 kinds of insects eaten by U.S. birds show that none of the palatable varieties is conspicuously marked. Among California salamanders, those eaten by snakes are concealingly colored and hide by day, and those which snakes avoid as nauseous are loudly marked and go about in daylight...
General Dentz did not attend the farewell party. He was up the coast at Tripoli, superintending the evacuation of his troops, presumably glad to go back to France with a whole hide. According to U.P.'s Harold Peters, who was in Beirut during the whole campaign, the General had to change his residence every night because of popular feeling against...
Fliers. For weeks a U.S. Army air mission inspecting China's air bases (the mission had reportedly been within 40 miles of Shanghai) had played hide-&-seek with the Japanese Air Force. Now the mission was returning, bearing reports and plans...
...abduction of Hitler, returned his Legion of Honor ribbon to France, explained to Marshal Henri Petain: ". . . Under your recreant Government it has lost its value." ∙∙ Eighty-four-year-old Lady Mendl (Decorator Elsie de Wolfe) had a Cellophane window put in her glove so as not to hide her diamond wrist watch...
...spare the handsome hide of Matador Power, Armillita, the Babe Ruth of Mexican matadors, bats for him in the bullfight scenes. Last week Armillita was doing double duty. While U.S. cinemaddicts watched his classic cape-work in Blood and Sand, Mexicans beheld it in an equally new but quite different picture - a Posa Films production starring Mexico's fun niest comedian, Cantinflas. Its title: Neither Blood Nor Sand...