Word: subhuman
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...first edition of Vol. 1 contains many passages which were later suppressed, among these being the widely-publicized statement that the original type of man was blond and that other races were the results of combinations with subhuman races, a thesis promptly refuted by many noted anthropologists...
...horn), and a variegated assortment of porcupines, camels, cranes, storks, milgai, kangaroos, monkeys, baboons, dromedaries, tapirs, leopards, hippopotamuses, hyenas, bears, gnus, parrots & macaws, deer, pumas, an audad, a bok and a gemsbuck. There were many horses (735 by the program) and many a zebra. There were such subhuman animals as The Men from Mars (albino Negroes), Cliko the Bushman (who reads philosophy when not exhibiting himself), giants, giantesses, midgets, snake charmers, contortionists, fat ladies, a Whirling Dervish, the Rubberneck Man. five Ubangi women with wooden discs in their lips (circumference: 14 in.) and The Vegetable Man whose aberration is paring...
Jane Parker still seems to be more pleased than frightened. Her abductor does not disillusion her. Although he can only converse with monkeys and is, aside from his ability as a gymnast, convincingly subhuman, Tarzan shows a surprising grasp of the niceties of romantic love. He is only rough once, when he seizes Jane Parker's handkerchief, tears it in half and gives a disagreeable grunt...
...ground where Oldoway lay buried was pleistocene, judged to be a million years old. Was this modern-looking man buried in ancient soil fairly recently, or did he live & die in the pleistocene period of glaciers and subhuman creatures? Professor Reck believed the latter...
...shot through the chest, dies as he is being carried in. With more humor than All Quiet on the Western Front, Her Privates We is curiously like it in tone: in its quiet admiration of some men's courage and cheerfulness, its despair and hatred of a subhuman way of life that uses men to stop bullets, feed rats. Her Privates We points no moral, needs to point none...