Word: skins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...David Aitken, electric ty coon, he inherited his interest in animals from his father, who started life as a fur trader at Rat Portage in the Rainy River country, Ontario. At the age of nine he was modeling clay robins, baking them by an open fire. He loved to skin weasels so that he might study their muscular structure. To study ceramics Russell Aitken went to the Cleveland Art School rather than an Eastern university. He has worked in porcelain factories in both Austria and Germany as an invited student...
...worlds of screen star and taxi driver meet in a tense drama, "It Happened in New York," packed with pathos and mingled emotions, to prove that all of us are brothers and sisters under the skin. Gertrude Michael, the star, fed up with her public and her press-agent, Hugh O'Connell, is fascinated by Lyle Talbot's manly figure and colorful repartee. We fear the worst when she lures him away from his telephone girl sweetheart and aboard a yacht, where he saves her from a couple of thugs; she says, "Why are you so cold and distant...
...could the Canadian legislative mind be so cold as to believe any citizen of the United States capable of even harboring a thought which involved snatching tender offspring from the breasts of fond parents? After all, are we not all brothers under the skin? Are we not all sharers of the common heritage of humanity, family devotion? Let us be broad minded about this thing. Let us look at the situation through the eyes of the loving mother. Picture the affection lavished in the quiet of the home with no one there but mother, father, Dr. Dafee, three nurses...
Several features of the two cases are similar: 1) "Ballooning" of the body from the air under the skin...
Whitey is an albino for the same reason that occasional humans are: congenital lack of black pigment cells in the skin. For some reason albino frogs are far rarer than albino humans, lobsters, squirrels, peacocks, porcupines. About one out of every seven normal humans carries the albino inheritance in his germ-plasm as a recessive Mendelian character, and one person in every 25,000 is an albino. Albinism has been recorded in the great majority of animal and plant species. But Dr. Noble, contemplating Whitey, guessed that possibly not more than one like her could be found among millions...