Word: likings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Author Eipper's special plea is that animals in zoos be given space. Like Noah, he also insists there should be two at least of every kind. He concludes: "I have written this book to show, not why or what, but how animals really are. . . . You will find . . . documents of reality, just as are the photographs that reflect life in its pages. . . . Brothers of Life, great and small-the animals look...
Mary's death made Elizabeth queen at 25. The yellow-red ringlets of her hair framed a dead-white face accented by dark, steady eyes. Though she "spat and swore like a man . . . suitors sprang up like mushrooms." Elizabeth, it seems, was ''broadminded about her favorites, but snobbish about her suitors." With one favorite, the brown-skinned Leicester, she was intimate in public but denied that she made similar concessions in private. Ben Jonson opined that she was "incapable of man" and Brantome, always physiologically acute, offered a theory ex- plaining that theory. Elizabeth rejected King Philip...
...dingy streets, was fairly immune to litterateurs until Mrs. Vina Delmar began to leer in its direction. The result of her first leer she sold for about $60 to Snappy Stories, brisk woodpulp fiction monthly. Thereafter her Bronx first-novel Bad Girl, was wreathed by the Literary Guild, and, like later Delmar books, was read by millions...
...Crimson ends turned in a performance which was decidedly encouraging. Down the field under punts or passes, they were always alert and on the spot. Incipient West Point run backs were cut short by the knife-like tackles of the Crimson-jerseyed wingmen...
...Very few people know exactly what a mine looks like," the commander of the "Oglala" continued. He pointed to several which were left in the hold. They are large cylindrical shells of iron which are filled with T. N. T. when needed. To each mine is attached a large square weight which serves as an anchor...