Word: llamas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Diggers for the Field Museum, Chicago, returned last winter from the barrens of northern Argentina, bringing 3,000 pounds of fossil promacrauchenia (ancestor of the llama), glyptodonts (giant armadillos), toxodonts (hippopotami...
...inclined to think that this is not altogether the case. Most musical shows are produced by men of stereotyped minds and artistic ignorance who follow the same formulae year after year in the same unimaginative way. Its resistance to change and innovation is stronger than that of a Buddhist Llama and its prevailing keynote is a dreary monotone. Not that the plot, libretto, " novelties," lyrics, jokes and chorus numbers of the same musical comedy that has been masquerading on Broadway 20 times a season for the last ten years under various aliases was not once pretty good stuff; the trouble...