Word: zebra
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been hurt is thereafter to outgag the waggish Charlie. Rusty cheats Charlie out of a vacation. He retaliates by taking over the city desk, making himself unpleasant to his onetime colleagues. Rusty hires the world's most obnoxious office boy to annoy him, has his office painted in zebra stripes. Heartbroken when he hears she is to marry Roger Dodacker. success story writer (Conrad Nagel). Charlie arranges a wedding present for her by sending her a fire engine and a riot squad, an ambulance and an undertaker to Dodacker. In the last shot, Rusty and Charlie...
...beats his breast, while the female leans placidly against a tree, watching her baby eat wild celery. At a waterhole a mother giraffe with widespread forelegs is bending down to drink. Beside her are the male, keeping watch, and the calf. Nearby a young Grévy's zebra is suckling its mother. In the background baboons are scrambling over a steep cliff. On the plains of Tanganyika a group of mottled, sinister-looking wild dogs are intently watching a herd of zebra, ready to give chase and cut down a straggler. There is a group of five lions...
...child was born, gay Mme Vicogne was reported to have said: "Let's call him 'Jean-Ai-Assez.' [I've had enough]." This number of Vu also offered a page of photographs of some extraordinary animals. There was a cow-pigeon, a sheep-duck, a zebra headed like a rhinoceros, a monstrous swan wattled like a rooster. "Nature is an inexhaustible mystery," reflected Vu, explaining that the pictures had been obtained in "The Wild Forests of Brazil." Elsewhere in the issue were text and pictures showing how "the famous German Professor Julius Lirpa" had perfected...
Oddest of all is the zebra-like okapi, a kind of short-necked giraffe so rare that it is usually caught only by native pygmies with pitfalls...
...remainder of the Convention's 21 proteges: Abyssinian ibex. Northern hartebeest, wild ass, mountain zebra, whale-headed stork, bald-headed ibis, white-breasted guinea fowl and all elephants with tusks no heavier than five kilograms...