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Three Whistling Vipers, a Madagascar moon-faced monkey, a Mandalayan singing lizard-members of an immigrating menagerie-arrived in Manhattan on the Hamburg, as did Novelist Sinclair Lewis and his wife, the former Miss Dorothy Thompson, famed newspaper correspondent...
Sprawling like a high-humped lizard on the bed of the Atlantic Ocean is a mighty ridge, its lazy length (about 50 degrees N. lat. to 40 degrees S. lat.) following the S-shaped outlines of the continents on either side. A sheer 9,000 feet of height, it towers in the way of deep sea fishes scurrying from Pernambuco to Benguel. Its knobby head rises curiously above the waters in the north (Azores plateau); St. Paul, Ascension Island, and Tristan da Cunha mark its southern peaks...
...horned toad is not a toad, nor a frog. It is a lizard, a reptile, which through the ages has developed a broad, squat, warty body. It looks like a batrachian, save for its short, sharp tail. Horned toads run; they do not hop. They breathe by means of lungs, not through the skin. Frogs and regular toads can breathe through the skin. Horned toads (i.e. lizards) are of a higher form of life than are batrachians...
Last week, when the museum's new Hall of Reptiles was opened for the first time by President Henry Fairfield Osborn, distinguished visitors could see two nightmares poised fighting over a wild boar. A third one, a female, glared, waiting division of the lizard kill...
...Santander, Spain. Two classes will race: boats 35 to 55 ft. on the waterline and boats over 55 ft. Many of the notable craft from Eastern harbors are entered including the Aloha, Atlantic, etc. The Atlantic, owned by Gerard B. Lambert (Listerine) holds the Sandy Hook to the Lizard (an English lighthouse) record; 12 days, four hours...