Word: beastes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...event attracted more interest than the competition between the big Holsteins. Judged grand champion bull was a tremendous black-&-white beast named Man o' War XXX. He weighed 2,500 Ib., was priced by his owner-Ed Hofland of Menomonie. Wis.-at $12,500. With imperious, melancholy eye, Man o' War XXX watched a mere stripling weighing less than a ton and named Sir Triune Pansy null win the 12 mo.-18 mo. class...
...away Civil Guards grew tired of slapping thousands of citizens back from the National Assembly with the flats of their sabres, began brutally to slash, drew blood. Back & back the mob surged like a great wounded beast, but did not disperse, stayed to raise conflicting shouts of "Down with the Church!" and "Long live Christ the King...
...Australia came a story of two large creatures. One was an old mining prospector called ''Big Jim," 6 ft. 8 in., 250 Ib. "Fossicking" for opals on the Stuart Range of Central Australia,* he heard a peculiar sound. Looking up he beheld an enormous reptilian beast close ahead of him. Big Jim snatched up some rocks, slung them at the creature. It lashed its tail and charged, uttering a roar which sounded to Big Jim like the mingled bark of a dog and the growl of a lion...
...keeper "did the one thing that would save his life. He took the lion completely by surprise. He emitted a blood-curdling yell, sprang into the air and with all his strength hurled his water-filled pail and his wet mop full in the face of the astonished beast. Hannibal was so unnerved by this attack that he tried to beat a hasty retreat over the slippery floor. His feet flew out from under him and he turned an undignified somersault back into his sleeping den. Poor Hannibal couldn't be persuaded to come out of his sleeping quarters...
Bronco riding was the big event and an outlaw horse of the meanest breed was Five Minutes to Midnight. Earl Thode of Belvidere, S. Dak. won the most coveted prize among cowmen when he rode the bucking beast against all comers without changing hands on the rein, losing a stirrup or pulling leather. In the "bulldogging" contest Mike Hastings of Lobo, Tex. took 22 1/10 sec. to overtake a Texas longhorn. In bulldogging the steer gets a 30 ft. start, the 'dogger leaps from his horse to the steer's head, throws it on its side, bites...