Word: armadillos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bushmaster's tail is a slender horn, possibly a vestigial set of rattles. Like the rest of the family, it has a deep pit on either side of its big, blunt snout. It is the only member which lays eggs, usually nesting in deserted armadillo holes. It grows up to 12 ft. long. Its enormously developed fangs look like a sabre-toothed tiger...
...called the pretty one, He started fighting at the age of 15, which was 16 years ago, an uncommonly handsome, upstanding kid with the poise of a statue and nice teeth and hard, flat belly with the muscles laid over one another like the sections of an armadillo's shell...
Another picture caption: "Grotesquerie: A polisher traversing belt edges, not an armadillo out for a walk...
...Gross fakery is apparent from the inclusion as "African" properties, of an armadillo (found only in the Americas), California pepper trees, a turtle with shells and wings glued...