Word: warts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week "Phil" Plant and his second wife put their special floating trailer aboard ship in Manhattan, set sail for Africa to collect ostriches and wart hogs for the American Museum of Natural History. But pheasants from the Plant collection of 3,000, one of the largest in the East, were among the Nepal Kaleeges, Blue Manchurians, Cheers, Versicolors and Impeyans which graced the Poultry Show. "They're just to look at," explains Fancier Plant. "They might replace peacocks that people keep in penthouses. They're like a miniature peacock, but they're more dainty. There...
...view of the reputation that Miss MacDonald has established as a moving picture actress, such a comment by you or anyone else has about as much influence with the public as a wart on a dill pickle...
...game he can still get with a full license includes three lions, leopard, cheetah, lynx, common hippopotamus, crocodile, hyena, wild dog, jackal, wart hog, badger, baboon, civet, buffalo, ordinary zebra, waterbuck, wildebeest, impala reedbuck, eland gazelle, the lesser kudu...
Boiled Miss Barrymore, digging her nails into the young woman's chin: "The hell I can't, you little wart! . . . You little rat! ... You little bitch...
...tight censorship continued to obscure what, if anything, the 75,000 troops he has sent to Africa (TIME, Feb. 18, et seq.) are doing. Last week 100,000 Abyssinian troops were supposed to have been sent slogging down through the mud toward Italian Somaliland. In Addis Ababa the wart, smart Emperor of Abyssinia received guests while fondling three cocker spaniels given him in happier times by Italy's Little King, announced that this week Abyssinia will arraign Italy before he League Council...