Word: lizardly
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...they were Ryder was finding out for himself. Sebastian's father, Lord Marchmain, lived in Italy with an Italian mistress. His wife lived in Venice with a gentleman poet. ". . . Always drifting about the canals in a gondola with [him]," exclaimed Anthony Blanche, who was as "ageless as a lizard" and knew the family well "-such attitudes, my dear, like Madame Recamier; once, I passed them, and [the] gondolier . . . gave me such a wink. . . . She sucks [men's] blood. You can see the toothmarks all over Adrian's . . . shoulders when he is bathing...
...there were to be postwar equivalents of the flapper and the lounge lizard, the short skirts and Oxford bags of the 1920's, they had not evolved yet. The only really distinctive style note was the transitory costume-half uniform, half civilian clothes-of discharged servicemen. The new automobile, refrigerator, and radiant heating system were still just pictures in advertisements; whiskey was 65% neutral grain spirits, and butter was hard to find...
...Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, 68, lizard-eyed besieger of Leningrad...
...Cowles reasoned that the unadaptable dinosaur, lacking a cooling system, became sterile during a cycle of warm weather. To test his theory, he tried heat treatments on a descendant of the dinosaur, the night lizard (Xantusia vigilis...
...most important legal decision for lizards in 200,000,000 years has been handed down by a South African court. In Johannesburg Isaac Alter, owner of a curio shop, was haled before a court because two of his native (Negro) employes had separated 30 live lizards from their valuable skins. Cruelty to animals is an offense under South African law. But the case raised a nice point of biolegalism: is a lizard an animal? Ruled Magistrate C. J. Humphreys: "An animal is a sentient being which takes food in a digestive cavity, has the power of voluntary motion...