Word: chameleon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author. Wiseacres say that when a chameleon is put on a crazy quilt, it becomes fatally confused. On the U. S. crazy-quilt, most smart writers stick safely to their native patches, or seek like colors. Not so 39-year-old Thames (pronounced not Tems but as it is spelled) Ross Williamson. Born on the Nez Perce Indian Reservation in Idaho, son of a Welsh-Norwegian father, a French-Irish mother, his mixed inheritance has well prepared him for the kaleidoscopic environment from which he is emerging as an able guide to the patchwork of the U. S. scene...
...woman, with delicate almost mask-like features brushed her hair, occasionally glancing at the child, then to a corner where an elderly man, sitting on a crummy stool, whittled whistlewood: His salt worn cheeks, drawn closely together below two unevenly coloured eyes resembling niches in the side of a chameleon, suddenly moved backward; uneven and sinisterly pointed teeth protruded. His uncovered muscular arms turned with his body as he lowered his head. Two calloused hands held a large axe, and the man rose. The same well was heard again, coming from the child. As the axe moved across the room...
...will be furnished with a cut-and-dried, composite booklet, which, with no floor plans, will give them little information. To the end that they may not base their decisions regarding a three years' residence on the relative merits of the different ends of the spectrum on Harvard's chameleon-like cupolas, the CRIMSON will give a critical estimate of the seven units in a series of editorials; a series primarily of expository nature but in which an attempt will also be made to analyze the House Plan in its first year of operation...
...Lloyd George] has now received an ultimatum from a substantial and influential section of his party, that, whatever he does, they mean to keep Labor in office. The 'Chameleon of Criccieth' has dealt a heavy blow at the unity of his own party...
...Ridgewood, L. L, William Layman, chameleon peddler, tied strings about the necks of his lizards, dangled them before prospective buyers, was fined $25 for cruelty to animals...