Word: warts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Each of the skits considers an aspect of the French (and occasionally of the British) national character with the sort of inane intensity a small boy devotes to a wart. Items: French Suspiciousness, British Weather. The Cult of the Liver among Middle-Aged Frenchmen, The Function of the Horse in Anglo-Saxon Courtship Patterns. There is a marvelous visual essay on the ricochet principle in Gallic traffic, and the now-familiar comic scene in which a British mother gives her daughter some moral aspirin on her wedding night: "I know, my dear, it's disgusting. But . . . just close your...
...really Cromwell's head? It looks like him-to the reddish beard and mustache and the wart over the right eyebrow. Scholars who examined it at the Royal Archaeological Institute believed it to be genuine. In Canon Wilkinson's house last week the old Roundhead rested in its oaken box. No one seemed disposed to demand burial...
...these natives and animals are really getting a load of how nice white people smell." Godfrey was also introducing the natives to such civilized amenities as Blue Bonnet Margarine (sponsor): "We are crazy about it here; we're making blueberry pancakes and frying the liver from the wart hog with it. Everything tastes better with bloop blurp margarine...
Efficient Killer. Prometheus, Dart concludes, must have been a prodigious hunter, because around his bones are scattered fragments of the antelope, giraffe, buffalo, rhinoceros and hippopotamus. He also fished the streams for water turtles and robbed the nest of the shrike. Giant rodent moles, wart hogs and porcupines were staples of his diet. No creature except modern man has ever been such an efficient killer, says Dr. Dart...
...hero himself cuts off one man's genitals, hacks out another's tongue, and, pinning a Mau Mau woman to the ground, tries unsuccessfully to get her to talk by dropping a two-foot snake upon her genitals. Finally Peter says: "I have shot only wart hogs and camp meat, so to speak . . . Now I want to go and find me a fine trophy ... I will collect old Kimani and hang him on the wall...