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...have to smoke up the ventilator any more. We Elis would describe him as of the species "Joe College," the rah-rah, razzle dazzle "hot dog." We would think of beer suits, "The Nass," and house parties, and pronounce him a clothes-horse, social butterfly, and incipient "lounge-lizard...
Among the species found which were previously entirely unknown, or had not been recorded in the Caribbean region, were black snails, Carabidae beetles, earthworms, locusts, a small rock lizard, a frog, and caterpillars...
...Frazeur. a seaman on the Steel Navigator, is a traditional sailor. When his ship docked at a port in tropical Sumatra about a month ago, he went ashore like a tidal wave. Next day, having managed to get back aboard, he awoke to find in his bunk a scaly, lizard-like creature about a foot long, with a stubby snout and a tongue that looked like a worm. Seaman Frazeur greeted the creature with no amazement, named it Pandora, fed it on milk and egg yolk. When he went back to the U. S., Pandora went with...
...scientific adventure rather than romantic has been the object of his cruises in the wake of Charles Darwin's Beagle. Allan Hancock is credited with at least two discoveries-the fish Aganostomus hancocki Seale and the lizard Diploglossus hancocki (Slevin). Among the prodigious animals he brought back last week...
Playing no favorites, Poet MacNeice represents the activities of his molelike rubes and his lizard-like slickers as equally unsatisfactory. He conveys the impression, nevertheless, that Something is watching both like a cat. What that Something is his poems fail to signify-except that it is deadly to human moles and lizards. Bagpipe Music gives a crazy rehearsal of things done in town and country, raises echoes that such things will not do. For townees the echo runs...