Word: reptilian
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...members urging them to vote favorably when this motion came up. Alarmed, Publisher Hearst commanded his chief scribe, Arthur Brisbane, to circularize all the A. P. members and ask them if they were going to permit their votes to be thus "forced" by the directors; if, having "scotched" this reptilian idea in 1924, they were going to sit by and permit "the right of protest" to be overridden in 1926; if they were going to permit Publisher Gannett to be "given a franchise for nothing that many other members have spent fortunes to obtain?" Scribe Brisbane, furthermore, denied that there...
...learn the hidden cause directly. So with a sterilized lancet the doctor, emergency surgeon now, pricked the baby's pink scalp. He pricked again. He heard a minute clink; he felt something hard against his lancet blade. He looked, and there gleaming up at him like a reptilian eye glittered in his incision the end of a steel darning needle...
When Holbrook Blinn first created Pancho Lopez, erstwhile Mexican bandit, he made him gorgeous and highly picturesque, but possessed of a certain oleagenous quality that was more reptilian, than romantic. With his black hair well greased and his thick curl closely pasted to his oily forehead, one felt that on a hot day he might ooze out through the cracks in the stage. Avoiding this, Mr. Mowbray makes his Lopez dustier but not so greasy. It is a pleasant change...
...most extraordinary cartoons ever published was one by Oliver Herford, in Life, representing Publisher Hearst as a terrible, glossy reptilian, crawling over the earth, nose to ground, its nine writhing arms stretched out to grasp as many State capitals...
COBRA?Sloughing off the scales of sex, with very little hint of reptilian slime...