Word: beastes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Paramount and Fenway this week can beast of variety in their so-called attractions. One of them is about murder; the other is about the milk of human kindness. But that is about...
Last October in Amsterdam's Hotel Carlton, careful hands hoisted a huge white tomcat onto a small table set on a dais. Cautiously the beast sniffed at a checkered board, turned away disinterested. Soon afterward two bespectacled, scholarly-looking gentlemen sat down at the same table, studied the board for five hours, occasionally moved a figure...
...hungry, besiege him and his shipmates in a cave. A moment not composed by Creelman occurred when Tarzan, 3-year-old trained Nubian lion, was startled by the whir of motors in a hidden camera box while Bickford was lying on the ground in front of him. The beast sank its teeth in the actor's neck, shook him, dropped him, leaped on his prostrate body, stood there until scared off. Nine days later Bickford, with his bandages disguised by makeup, got out of the hospital and lay down again in front of nervous Tarzan. Guards with rifles were...
...Professor Copeland is not the only Harvard man to be represented in the Almanac. Robert S. Hillyer '17, associate professor of English, can beast of his "Snow is the Kindest" appearing on page 3, a place of honor. It is, in fact, the first poem in the pamphlet...
...days later a sentry was killed by one of Emperor Haile Selassie's "domesticated" lions as five of the great beasts escaped, clawed five more sentries in their bolt out of the Palace. Though His Majesty calls himself "Conquering Lion of Judah" and makes special pets of lions, the five Beast Kings were finally mowed down with a machine gun last week by Colonel Mekouria of the Imperial Guard. Next at Addis Ababa came the paganistic maypole ritual with which Ethiopians every year open the dry season, their season of battle. Since this festival is always an orgy...