Word: toadding
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...Pablo Picasso, almost every famed name in modern French painting was represented. Henri Matisse saw Lani in three lines, Andre Derain painted her very swarthily, Haim Soutine as a Spectre. One painter gave her 14 eyes, another seven, another one. She was seen as a machine, as a horned toad, as a Negress. Galleryman Brummer shrewdly put no photographs of her on exhibition...
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...Toledo, one Finley Fackler, workman, found a live toad in a hollow of a concrete block at a Baptist Church...
That is the way the strip looked upon its arrival in the office of the Kansas City Times. But readers saw no snake when the strip was published in the Times. In place of the snake appeared a toad, hurriedly scratched in. In place of the stick was a rock. In place of the blurbs were other blurbs: "Don't let that toad get away. One of you pick up a rock or something and kill it! . . . EEEEEEK! She picked up the TOAD to hit the ROCK with...
...toad, one of the most ancient forms of present animals, one that lives both in water and on land, apparently secretes a fluid whose components are both animal and vegetable. One ingredient is ergosterol, which is found in cod liver oil. Another is adrenalin exactly like that taken from the suprarenal glands of animals. Two other ingredients act like digitalis, which the purple foxglove produces. There is a reservation in the scientists' report. They do not know how the Chinese dry and prepare their toad venom. Strange things may be added, befogging a true analysis...