Word: reptilian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prints; an old Zebu bull with mountainous shoulders; a leopard which is almost pure draftsmanship without substance. A formalized antelope reminded visitors of the wall drawings of Cro-Magnon cave men. A group of storks and herons seemed to be millions of years old, to show atavistic traces of reptilian ancestry...
...Item: a reptilian professional strikebreaker (Manart Kippen) tortures a union leader with hot irons...
...long trial through which sleek Businessman Lucania sat with reptilian calm, his high-powered lawyers launched into a 13-hour summation for the defense, attacking the credibility of the prosecution's witnesses, declaring that strumpets had been taken on wild parties by the state in order to induce them to testify. Mr. Dewey contented himself with a seven-hour answer. Urging the jury not to spare Lucania, he declared: "Unless you are willing to convict the top man you might as well acquit everyone...
...think all biologists would agree that, so far as we can know anything about such matters, pain, as human beings know pain, is wholly absent from the experience of invertebrate, or even reptilian, contestants in the struggle for existence. Alfred Russel Wallace, co-promulgator with Darwin of the theory of evolution, even suggested that among some of the lower forms of life the process of being eaten might be mildly pleasant...
Caught in a forged chain of circumstantial evidence, Asther is convicted, sentenced to hang. Because of his wife's grief Kruger relents, tells police they have the wrong man, puts a bullet into his brain. Ably acted and directed, The Crime Doctor is noteworthy for the reptilian restraint with which Criminologist Kruger, without trying to trick his audience, commits his murder...