Word: hybrids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Colored Cats. Long and learned reports were read upon the inheritance of fur color in cats. A mysterious story had got abroad that zoological gardens, cat clubs, museums were anxious to obtain specimens of three-colored cats, such as the rare tortoiseshell, black and yellow hybrid. Result: floods of letters from people with tricolored felines, many ingeniously complicated breeding experiments...
...combat the disease, there has come into being at Dravrah a class of people of hybrid nature, something between Prophezzors and Satellites, called Shock-Producers, whose function it is to awaken the sleepers. For some reason unintelligible to me the Shock-Producers occupy a relatively unimportant position at present; but their significance seems destined to increase, because they strike at the root of the evil at Dravrah. Their task is tremendous and requires the greatest skill and ingenuity. They must shock the Satellites in such a way as to awaken them without killing them, and in some cases it seems...
Comment would be superfluous. When, if ever, you get back to running an AMERICAN paper instead of a hybrid of partly anarchy and partly worse, I shall hope to be advised of your reformation. Meantime please kill on mailing...
Even Americans, if thoughtful, will realize that a hybrid, even as American culture is hybrid, he caught the vigor and rude strength of life in newly settled California. His clear, pointed style has swept the ceremonious diction of the Victorian writers from American fiction; and above all, he express that gaiety and resilience which are the distinguishing American characteristics. Bret Harte is the prophet of humor and humanity, but like most prophets he is honored everywhere but in his own land...
...Roman Catholic Church. To this Canon Barnes is greatly opposed. Said he: "A reasonable system of faith and thought cannot be derived from the theories peculiar to Anglo-Catholicism. The earnestness and zeal of Anglo-Catholics only make the more pathetic the fact that their system is a hybrid, bred by fear in the Victorian era.* Its founders were afraid of liberal theology. ... In Latin Catholicism, the ancestral sacramental paganism of the Mediterranean races is veneered by Christian sentiment. To attempt to graft it on the English church is hopeless...