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First to strike was the Daily Worker, which attacked Kravchenko as a "petty traitor," a "lizard" and a "miserable weakling." Next day the Soviet Embassy itself formally repudiated Kravchenko as only one of the U.S.S.R.'s 3,000 U.S. employes, as a mere "inspector of pipes," and finally as a "deserter" from the Russian Army, who "refused to return to his motherland for military service...
...seemed to be bald; he had a short, squat nose, ugly thick lips, but undoubtedly his outstanding physical feature was his great pointed ears. Some people suggested, but under their breath, that with his great abnormal head and his small but very active body he looked like a lizard. . . .") The second trip was to Berlin. The third and most difficult was the voyage of the mind at Versailles, where the statesmen tried to form the world's Covenant that would end its preventable misery. "The task of this Commission," said Woodrow Wilson soberly, "is like that of the body...
When American troops appeared in New Guinea, they found natives ("Boongs") with the world's bushiest hair, which sometimes ringed heads with a solid twelve inches of felt-like fuzz (in which they love to pin flowers). They also found seven-toed cats-and a lizard called Gecko which sings, and a bird whose six-noted whistle sounds like "Did he do it?" Pause. "No, oh." U.S. pursuit pilots shot down by daring Japanese Zeroes found themselves parachuting into a leech-infested jungle so thick the earth never feels sunshine-hard, though the sun may try to broil...
Dante wrote a wonderful account of it." Devil Bedeviled. "Well," said Heydrich, and a crafty look appeared in his lizard-green eyes, "I would like to make a few suggestions. That old fool, Charon, at the river Acheron. He batted me one with his oar when I protested that he should have a special boat reserved for members of the Master Race. What democratic weaknesses are these! And your centaurs with bows & arrows, and your beds of hot sand and serpents and wasps! What you need here are tanks and flamethrowers and soft-nosed bullets. And why do you maim...
Mexico's Heel. To arid, lizard-like Baja (Lower) California, via Nogales, Ariz. and San Diego, Calif., went Mexican troops, moving across U.S. soil with Washington's permission. Avila Camacho, in a smart military-political stroke, named his predecessor Lázaro Cárdenas chief of Mexico's land, air and naval forces on the west coast, concentrated most of his country's tidy little Navy in the Pacific. From his Senate he sought authority to open ports and bases to ships and planes of the U.S. and any American nation at war with...