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...bullfrog has protruding eyes and makes a loud, guttural noise, as if he owned the frog pond. He feeds on any living animal matter which he can swallow, and is in turn devoured by creatures stronger than he, such as snakes, fishes, herons, alligators, etc.-Encyclopaedia Britannica and other sources...
...gardens full of melancholy statuary, the Palace had been since 1854 London's high-toned version of Coney Island. Thousands of contemporary Londoners had their first childhood outings there, listening to holy choirs, brass bands, evangelists; watching cricket, soccer, motorbike races; running through the gardens, boating on the pond. In World War I the grounds and building incongruously became H.M.S. Crystal Palace-i.e. a "training ship" for naval reservists...
...called for gigantic statues of daddy longlegs with the faces of Greek goddesses and medieval heroines, "a headless woman from the recipe of a surrealist magician of the Middle Ages," perfumed fountains, loudspeakers making moans from the bushes, corpselike manikins with flowing hair trailing in the waters of a pond. Said Mrs. Crosby: "I am doing this enchanted garden as an experiment with the white magic of the Middle Ages. I will use all the modern means of mystification-loud-speakers, electric lights and wires and mechanisms." By last week Sponsor Crosby had had a grand piano hauled into...
...force them to apply for "public assistance." Thence he is plunged into a world he never knew -a world of hate, whores, idiots, stinking tenements and the loathed "Welfares." It is a world well known to Caroline Slade. When her mother read a preceding novel, The Triumph of Willie Pond, she wrote to her daughter: "Caroline, wherever in the world did you hear such language?" For years Caroline has been a social worker, has more understanding of the Bowery bum than respect for her bureaucratic colleagues who speak of the poor as "cases." She has seen the same economic underworld...
...HOOK OR CROOK-R. A. J. Walling-Morrow ($2). Good, conventional English slaughter in Devon, where old tin mines look like the money motive and Bunter's Pond the mortuary. Detective: the gentlemanly Philip Tolefree...