Word: beastes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Morally straight as a sceptre, physically supple and strong as a beast of prey is the mightiest man in the Middle East, King Ibn Saud. Last week he changed the name of his realm which has been "The Kingdom of the Hejaz and Nejd and Its Dependencies." Renaming this huge desert hodgepodge partly after himself, tall, frowning Ibn Saud christened...
Other Terpilici comrades said that 40 of the 89 lost cows had been found, the rest having doubtless been eaten or sold. Scathingly the weekly Ekonomicheskaya Zhizn cartooned a man with a lantern "searching for an honest cow" and asking of one startled, guilty-looking beast: "Pardon me, but aren't you one of Terpilici State Farm's cows...
...model. From this they made a mold. Like a sculptor who transfers his clay model to bronze, they transferred theirs to a specially treated paper, hollow and light but strong. On this the skin was stretched after chemical treatment to insure the permanence of its lustre. Many a wild beast has been mounted in this manner, but Phar Lap was the first horse. Sysonby, great racehorse of 25 years ago, was stuffed, is now in Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History...
...Dangerous Life, published by Horace Liveright- 1931, for all details) were due to my rights against the bigotry of the Ku Klux Klan when it rose to power there in 1924 and our battles with the privileged interests and corrupt corporate powers that I wrote about in the Beast and the Jungle stories. These powers have circulated many lying stories about me and viciously misrepresented my views on what is popularly known (with much misunderstanding) as the Companionate Marriage. This is not any new kind of marriage but merely a label or title for a program to legalize and scientifically...
...jury would be moved by Dr. Gorgulov's outbursts, at least to the point of judging him insane, concentrated on attempts to picture him as a former Bolshevik terrorist. "He is the Rasputin of the Russian refugees." summed up Chief Prosecutor Donat Guigue. "He is a wild beast...