Word: lizardly
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...Frick, poured tea for a company of museum and aquarium directors, Manhattan officials and society folk in a newly finished hall on the fourth floor of the American Museum. Over and around us towered the colossal skeletons of 47-foot tyrannosaunis rex, of 66-foot brontosaurus, or 'thunder lizard,' of leptoceratops, palaeoscius and many another dinosaur, of which the American Museum has the world's finest collection. The Hall of Dinosaurs which the tea opened formally is the third of six halls I have planned to show the billion-year life history of the world...
Some time ago, having "dedicated his life to Science" after a course at Harvard, Mr. Burden read in a bulletin of the British Museum an exhortation to sportsmen to apprehend specimens of the giant lizard reported by P. A. Ouwens, a Dutch hunter, in 1912. (The Duke of Mecklinburg shot a specimen 20 ft. long.) Mr. Burden organized an expedition, including Mrs. Burden, Professor E. R. Dunn of Smith College and one de Fosse, French huntsman. They reached Komodo last June via China. The British flyer, Alan Cobham, stopped at Komodo en route from England to Australia (TIME...
...Dutch name for this monster lizard is boeaja darat (land crocodile). Science calls him varanus komodensis, identifying him as a big cousin of the African monitor lizard. Dr. Robert Cushman Murphy, assistant director of the American Museum, sailed last March with Manufacturer and Mrs. Jesse Metcalf of Manhattan on the same quest the Burdens last week completed (TIME, March 22). The Burdens also collected: seven rare specimens of poisonous snakes (dead); a 450-lb. saddleback tapir with a 40-in. snout (alive...
...called Mongolia-reedy lakes along whose shores fed cold-blooded brutes of preposterous, hobgoblin shapes and proportions. Some were small, only eight or nine feet long, with skins no thicker than ordinary linoleum. Their necks were like fire-hose, ending in froggish heads. Their posteriors stuck out like a lizard's, into muscular tails. Their forelegs were futile flippers but astern were haunches like a bull ostrich, for swift, stooped running on webbed and clawed feet. Many of these creatures were vegetarians and some who grew to 18-and 20-foot lengths developed rounded bills, like a giant duck...
...midwestern brother of Stover's immortal ally, Doc MacNooder. Breezy, flippant, crass, unquenchable, he now, in the day of elective courses, appears as the perennial senior; and, rough clothes and manners having gone out, as campus: fashion-plate and ladies' man (snake, fusser, petter, necker, lizard, sheik, as you will). He retains the MacNooder eloquence and syncopates it, polishing his quips for quotation, studying his audience. MacNooder's political finesse is his, refined and extended even unto sorority elections. His rostrum is at the mass meeting, in front of the grandstand, on the Charleston floor...