Word: baboons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington, D.C.) at the expense of Manufacturer Walter P. Chrysler, of Detroit, has kept faithfully in touch with the press from Darkest Africa. After many successful game drives, no small part of his labors have been providing cages and food for antelopes, birds, pythons, mongooses, monkeys, anteaters, hedgehogs, turtles, baboons. Lassoing gnus; dodging buffalos and night-prowling rhinos; cornering giraffes; distinguishing between hyenas and leopards in the dark, were occupations,, routine. "As I write," wrote Dr. Mann from Lake Manyara, "there is a chronic bedlam from the courtyard where our material is kept. A freshly arrived baboon is yowling...
...York Daily Mirror, with characteristic emphasis, spoke for the gum-chewers. At the top of its editorial page two pictures were printed, one of Sinclair Lewis with a monocle in his eye, and one (on the left) of a large hairy baboon with enormous ears, a wise, sad, underslung mouth, a flat nose. The baboon also wore a monocle...
...German professor named Farini found Krao in Siam in 1883. Mountaineers declared that the devil in the shape of a baboon had frightened her mother before her confinement. Intrigued by the story and charmed by the gentle manners of the bearded girl, her shy looks and silences, Professor Farini took her to Berlin and had her finely educated. But evil fortune fell on him; he was forced to place his ward in the Brandenburg Dime Museum in Philadelphia, where she was first exhibited...
...giant ground hornbills, fish eagles, secretary birds (snake-killers), brilliant plaintain-eaters, sun-birds and the paradise whydah (whose body is canary size with nine inches of tail); leopard tortoises, monitor lizards (which ravage crocodile nests, eat the eggs), armor-plated pangolins (scaly, ribbon-tongued ant-eater); pottos (small baboon). . . . "There is almost no limit to what might be found," but quality, not quantity, would be the collectors' object...
...Opera Goer Harriet Huntress Third Opera Goer Miss Isaacs Second Young Man with Same G. B. Bingham '28 Third Young Men with Same H. M. Fox '28 A Girl Marie Geare Second Girl Mary Forsberg A Mother Grace Michelman Her Elder Daughter Miss Hoyman A Younger Daughter Miss Lewis Baboon-Faced Policeman C. D. Gowing '28 Newsboy with Loud Voice H. L. Kozol '27 Second Newsboy Ernest Gross '27 Third Newsboy H. L. Ellison '28 Plainclothes Man W. B. Dunne '27 Susan Kettle Rhodita Edwards Kennedy Biggs, Celebrated Novelist D. L. Dickson '27 A He Intellectual W. B. Wilson...