Word: lizard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Inferior Lizard. As the Klan's high mugwumps fidgeted through four days of congressional catechism in the old House Caucus Room last week, they resorted to the same Pavlovian routine of pious nonresponse as their avowed archfoes the Communists. The Klan's chief panjandrum, Imperial Wizard Robert Shelton, 36, probably challenged the Communist record before the same committee by taking the First, Fourth, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments a total of 158 times in two days, invoking the mumbled formula: "I respectably decline to answer that question...
...sallow malaprop from Tuscaloosa apparently infected Republican Committee Member John Buchanan, a fellow Alabamian, who in one felicitous tongue-trip referred to Shelton as the "inferior lizard." During the fruitless questioning of James R. Jones, 37, the Klan's Grand Dragon of North Carolina, his attorney explained that Jones was having trouble understanding the questions because "he does not have a high-school education." Virginia's Grand Dragon, Robert Kornegay, 37, would not even admit that he was a U.S. citizen. The request that most clearly affronted Shelton and his reluctant dragons was the Congressmen's repeated...
April is indeed the crudest month, especially in Britain. Wind-driven gusts of rain, sleet and snow last week caused a stirring of the earth's dull roots from John o' Groats in the North Sea to Lizard Point on the English Channel. Memory and desire were mixed with the drifting London fog, the wet pavements iridescent with lights, the factory smoke shrouding the Midlands, and files of miners with blackened faces trudging home from the pits...
...language of personal insult flourishes. A zilch is a total loss, and so is a wimp, dimp, dipley nerdly, lizard, gink, barf, scuzz, skag, Jane, lunchbucket, or anyone whose mind is in the soil bank. At the University of North Carolina, last year's fink is this year's squid, cull, troll or nerd. The perennial rat fink is R.F. in Southern California and mouse fink or straight arrow (a combination pill and moral paragon) in the Harvard Yard. But though a tool in Florida is a dullard, a tool in the academic machinery of M.I.T. is merely...
...lizard, my lively writher...