Word: specimen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lagarto ("The Lizard") was built in 1922. That made her, compared to her rivals last week, a specimen of early Americana but antiquity is not El Lagarto's only distinction. For her first owner, Ed Grimm, who called her Miss Mary, El Lagarto performed miserably in the Gold Cup races of 1923 and 1924. Mr. Reis (pronounced "Rice"), who wanted a fast runabout for his Lake George summer home, bought her in 1925, renamed her for the reptile which he considers so lucky that he uses a large stuffed one with a hole in its back on his library...
...just received as a gift an arrant forgery to add to its notable collection of autographs. The document, purporting to be a brief letter in the handwriting of Benjamin Franklin, was gladly accepted by the library, for, according to Manhattan Autograph Expert Thomas F. Madigan, it was a fine specimen of the handiwork of Robert Spring, one of the most notorious autograph forgers in U. S. history. While hundreds of unwitting collectors have cabinets filled with Robert Spring autographs, wiseacres are willing to pay large sums for the few letters to which that rascal signed his real name...
...usher who is trying to blackmail the coatroom boy. The neatness of Author Krasna's construction, the pace of Mitchell Leisen's direction and Richard Barthelmess' understanding of the role of a vengeful, stubbornly romantic thug, make Four Hours To Kill a first-rate specimen of its school...
...reason why chubby, energetic Charles Meigs Biddle Cadwalader. director without pay of Philadelphia's Academy of Natural Sciences, was given the 1934 Bok award for civic service is that he manages to persuade moneyed sportsmen to go specimen-hunting for the Academy at their own expense. One of his ace sportsmen is Brooke Dolan II, who in the remote mountains of western China shot four specimens of takin, a rare antelope with thick, curling horns, yellow-gold forehead, yellow mane, black muzzle. Last week the Academy had the four on exhibition, only habitat group of takin in the world...
...mere enumeration of the different minerals but feebly describes their outstanding quality," said Professor Charles Palache, curator of the Museum, "Of the nine cuprates (oxide of copper), one is probably the finest specimen of this mineral ever found anywhere...