Word: monstering
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...Well, well, they're starting a little early this year, aren't they? . . . The offer of $25,000 for the Monster still stands. Of course, it must be alive, weigh two tons and be 40 feet long, and by all means it must be in good health. I don't want any ill monsters on my hands...
...Monster referred to was the dire denizen of Loch Ness, Scotland, first fabled in the world press in 1933. Opener of its 1937 season was an announcement by the Right Rev. Sir David Oswald Hunter Blair, Bart, (no kin to Dr. Reid Blair) that, at the age of 83, he was organizing an expedition to trace and trap the creature, bring it back alive...
...said Sir David, "must be thousands of years old and belongs to the postglacial period. . . . He is so tame I expect little trouble in bringing him home. In fact I have invited the boys of St. Bede's Roman Catholic College in Manchester to join me in the monster hunt...
Night Key (Universal) refreshingly presents famed Bogeyman Boris Karloff as a gaunt, lovable genius at electrical gadgets. Much of the picture's suspense comes from the expectation that he will suddenly revert to monster type. He never does, though he has plenty of provocation...
...only animal which can produce electricity. No insect, no bird, no other mammal can, but five fishes are living dynamos. Of these the biggest and most potent is the electric eel (Electrophorus electricus), a wormish monster which lives in the freshwater marshes of northern South America, grows over 8 ft. long and thick as a man's thigh, can send a shock through 28 ft. of water and stun the largest animal, including...