Word: piggish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...turtle is posed in frantic flight in an exhibition case of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History. Its neck is stretched far forward; its flippers beat the water; its runty tail sticks straight out behind. Driving after the turtle are several varieties of sharks-leathery bodies, cold, piggish eyes, blunt snouts all straining towards the prey...
...what is your name?" said the official to Chance Stow's companion, a slinking, shabbily dressed, ebony adolescent, with a scooped face, pointed ears, piggish eyes and a gold tooth...