Word: lizard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those of huge prehistoric birds. That was in 1858. Later scientists definitely attributed the tracks to Triassic dinosaurs of various sizes and unknown species. Some 20 individual prints were visible, ranging in length from three to 18 inches. The biggest tracks and the longest strides indicated that the largest lizard was 25 ft. long. The trustees of Massachusetts Public Reservations bought the surrounding land from its owner. President George E. Pellissier of Holyoke Street Railway Co., turned it into a prehistoric monument and park...
...Passos the man is deceptively unlike Dos Passos the writer. Tall, baldish, bobbing and very nearsighted, he looks like a clever, kind, slightly startled Bill the Lizard in Alice in Wonderland. Born in Chicago, his family, friends and fancy have taken him so many hithers & yons about the Western World that a casual acquaintance might be hard put to name his habitat. His grandfather was a Portuguese immigrant who became a shoemaker in Philadelphia. His father, "a self-made literate," volunteered as a drummer-boy in the Civil War, was invalided out of the Army of the Potomac when...
...Colonel, what's A. D.?" interrupted Bill the Lizard, "and can you please reach the cookies...
...always talking shop," retorted Bill the Lizard wagging his tail, "ye only learn as ye amuse yeself--here, have a cookie...
...always a thinking of the stomach," laughed Bill the Lizard. And by four on this Sunday they all finally and happily reached the Conants. And the fun was really just beginning...