Word: reptillian
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...result, the first all-male a capella group was formed in the spring of 1946, named after the reptillian mascot of the Pudding Club-The Harvard Krokodiloes...
...says, "social advancement, to put it simply. It's crude way to put it, but we may as well say it... This is a steady climb to richer and more famous people." Throughout the narrative, she maintains an active antipathy for Dr. Tarnower, describing him at one point as "reptillian." After finding fault with his diet and his home, among other things, Mrs. Trilling asserts outright, "The bad aesthetics of a society matter, and so do the bad aesthetics of individuals within that society; Tarnower's house matters, the pretensions of his diet book matter--style is a moral mode...
...unlike a truffle, apart from one raw reddish gash in it. It gave off an odor as of clay newly dug; also a pungent whiff of onion and of oil of geranium...They stood frozen before this object that drew and yet repelled them, as if a uniform reptillian mass should suddenly uncoil before their eyes and rear a dozen snaky heads. It was death's absolute presence that confronted them...
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