Word: zebras
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...Tell me, zebra," said the conductor, "are you a black animal with white stripes or a white animal with black stripes...
...Manhattan Wholesale Grocer Bill Seeman, his drinking companion, and with the other under his arm, departed for the much more elegant El Morocco. All in all, it was a small thing. A nothing. It was not as though he had settled down amid El Morocco's zebra-striped decor with a live giraffe...
...story was written by Novelist Rawlings, the lead is again played by Claude Jarman Jr. and Lassie is in the cast to handle the heart tugs supplied by a fawn in the first picture. The second venture, obviously intended to be a natural, is as unnatural as a purple zebra...
After the war, the Porters plunged headlong into Europe's melting pot of millionaires and marquises. They bought a $250,000 house in Paris, complete with kidskin chairs, zebra rugs and a room decorated in platinum leaf, but the house was often only a place from which mail was forwarded to the English countryside, Antibes, Venice, Florence, Siena, and the Duke of Alba's palaces in Seville and Madrid. In 1923, when Porter came into an inheritance from his grandfather, he began renting Venetian palaces...
...Fair, help visitors get around its spacious preserve. The Bronx has the greatest variety of species, and some of the greatest oddities. Its bongo, a reddish antelope with white rings around its middle, is the only one in captivity. Its okapi, built like a giraffe in front and a zebra behind, is the only one in the U.S. This spring the Bronx made a big splash with the importation of three duck-billed platypuses, the first to be brought to the U.S. from Australia since...