Word: beastes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that wasn't fit for man, beast or cross-country racers. The temperature was 27°, and slushy snow covered the Michigan State course. Squishing in sodden shoes, 154 athletes last week slogged after the National Collegiate cross-country crown. After 3¾ miles, Defending Champ Quentin Brelsford of Ohio Wesleyan was 20 yards in front...
...many who have not read The Aspern Papers will find the early reels of the film, in which horror crouches in the umbrageous palace like a beast in the jungle, divertingly atmospheric (though later the conviction abates); but the few who know James well, will-sensing in the film only "the triumph of the superficial and the apotheosis of the raw" which he so dreaded and adumbrated...
Music soothes the savage beast. Radcliffe will use this principle, in the person of the Crimson Band, to try to soothe some donations out of their not-so-savage alumnae at Symphony Hall, Boston, on December...
Last week, with the Michaelmas term at Shawnigan Lake under way, Christopher Lonsdale patted his German Shepherd Judy and pointed a moral: "If I had let Judy run wild and do as she damn wefl pleased as a pup, she'd be a vicious, savage beast today. You can't develop leaders by letting them do as they damn please when they're boys. If nothing else, we're training boys to be less obnoxious...
Nightmare Alley (20th Century-Fox) is a hair-raising carnival sideshow. At the dead end of the alley lives the Geek, an is-he-man-or-is-he-beast carnival exhibit that tears up and eats live chickens. He is able to stomach this job because he is in the last stages of dipsomania, and is paid a bottle a day and a place to sleep...