Word: lizard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Drop That Lizard! After two months as strangers, Lawrence wrote again. He said frankly that "my quarreling with you was largely a quarreling with something . . . I was struggling away from in myself." He described his latest conclusions about "a blood-consciousness which exists in us independently of the ordinary mental consciousness . . . If a lizard falls on the breast of a pregnant woman, then the blood-being of the lizard passes with a shock into the blood-being of the woman, and is transferred to the fetus . . . Do you know what science says about these things...
Rumania's Amazonian Foreign Minister Ana Pauker, wearing a New Look dress of white-flowered blue silk, with a grey lizard handbag, rose and in stumbling Russian said she had always cherished that language as her mother tongue. She had to be prompted by an assistant when she forgot the Russian word for "love."* At the end she mopped her brow in obvious relief. After these satellite tributes, English was voted down 7-3. (Next day the Bulgarians, Hungarians and Yugoslavs switched from Russian to French for their speeches...
...That's nothing," said Mr. Heaman's secretary. "At Swarthmore I remember finding a lizard in my cole slaw. Perhaps you'd better show it to Mr. Durant, the University business manager...
...poverty"; he saw rills of blood on his mother's hands after a day's work beating laundry in the icy Manzanares River in winter. He did not see "the clergy," but an old priest dozing in a wild garden with a lizard sunning on his knee, or young priests emptying the church's poor box and playing cards for the proceeds. The worn-out monarchy, for him, was a hemophilic prince grinning from a carriage...
...these pictures, is the overbred, exhausted, even decadent style of beauty that now seems to be striven after. Nearly all of these women are immensely elongated. A thin-boned, ancient-Egyptian type of face seems to predominate: narrow hips are general, and slender, nonprehensile hands like those of a lizard are quite universal. Evidently it is a real physical type...