Word: marmoset
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cabdrivers and rest-room attendants without even looking at the denomination. But she has invested heavily in bonds, and is building an annuity that will some day pay $500 a month-maybe enough to keep her in perfume and pet food (her menagerie has included a lion cub, a marmoset, several dogs and a parakeet...
...Othello's dark skin. Cried Critic Henry Crabb Robinson: "A gross attack on the pretensions to chastity in women." As political commentator, Hazlitt was even more savage. He once called the future Duke of Wellington "a weak mind and an able body," King Ferdinand of Spain "a royal marmoset." If he had not written so brilliantly, he might soon have found no editor to publish him. Hazlitt sometimes confused integrity with tactlessness. "I never wrote a line," he swaggered, "that licked the dust...