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Word: squarish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Barbary ape looks like a figure in a bilious dream, is just as unpleasant in action. Its squarish, long-snouted, wrinkle-mouthed face is palely naked except for matted tufts protruding from cheeks and forehead. It is yellowish brown & white, about the size of an Airedale, walks on four legs like its cousin the baboon. No tree-climber, it lives in Gibraltar's caves, is apt to turn up almost anywhere on the Rock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Apes on a Rock | 9/4/1933 | See Source »

...Author. Maxwell Bodenheim, 35, blond, squarish, medium-sized, is Jewish but looks Teutonic. He is married and lives on Long Island, but keeps his domicile a secret. As a writer Bodenheim is of the same school as unheavenly literary twin Ben Hecht, but nearer the foot of the class. His poetry is on a par with his prose. Other books: Replenishing Jessica, Ninth Avenue, Georgie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hard Babies | 1/26/1931 | See Source »

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