Word: whiskered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...become a famous actress--just like that. This doesn't sound like a very promising beginning; as a matter of fact it sounds like the start of half a dozen well-worn situations:--virginity adrift on Forty-Second Street; the smooth seducer with moustache; then rescue by a whisker...
Insanely popeyed, ponderously oozy, hideously fierce of tusk and whisker, a full-grown sea-elephant suggests some monstrous abortion of the animal kingdom's primal urge. Shrewd John Ringling told the public about sea elephants through Calvin Coolidge. When he took his circus to Washington in 1928 Mr. Ringling called at the White House, casually mentioned to President Coolidge that he had a sea elephant in the show. Mr. Coolidge nodded his head, went to see for himself. He discovered that the sea elephant is just an overgrown species of seal (Mirunga leoninus or patagonica), carnivorous, mammalian, with a flexible...
...TIME, a whisker is a whisker whether it grows out of chin, ear, nostril, facial mole or upper...