Word: ocelots
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...likes big boots and old brown tunics. Vain Alexander refused to grow a beard on the specious grounds that it would afford a handle which an opponent in war might grasp; diffident Stalin wears huge mustachios to make himself look more inscrutable. Alexander was imaginative, athletic, quick as an ocelot; Stalin is practical, ponderous, deliberate as a bear. Only similarity: Diogenes, out looking for an honest man, would not shine his lamp in either Alexander's or Stalin's visage very long...
...Muriel Vanderbilt Phelps put on her ocelot coat and went out on the lawn of her estate at Middletown, R.I. to bestow the prize (a live turkey) for a charity treasure hunt; to squeal in glee with 500 other socialites while a horde of urchins from Middletown, Newport and neighboring villages chased and caught two small, frightened, buttered pigs...
...year-old Boy Scout out of Puerto Cabello, Venezuela and into the mountains of Merida. Last week they were back in Manhattan with an assortment of rare or hitherto unknown birds and animals, including eight Andean dogs which bark like a cat's yowling, a little, spotted ocelot, foxes, iguanas, turkeys, macaws, lovebirds and 15 parrots...
...bristling, gibbering, jittering, wagging, scampering, squeaking, howling, yowling, meowing- last week a National Pet show filled Manhattan's ever sightful and soundful Madi- son Square Garden. There were 5,000 animals of all sizes, shapes, means of locomotion. There was a sombre Mongolian dromedary, an Indian baby elephant, ocelot (beast), a toucan (bird), a guppie (fish). Professor George Yoeger of Brooklyn took Trixie, his dancing, boxing dog. From New Jersey went Buster, 18-month-old chimpanzee who drinks Coca-Cola, hugs his mistress. Mme. Frieda Hempel. famed prima donna, wandered among the exhibits, her maid following with Master Toby...
Although most of the furriers' dealings, judged by bulk, seem to have been in cat fur, the pelts of other animals also came upon the block, including black bear, grizzly bear, polar bear, ocelot, wolf, Canadian baum marten, Japanese marten, cross fox, fisher, flying squirrel, Chinese weasel, pahmi and Gold Coast monkey...