Word: beastes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...animal crumpled to the ground, another tusker charged from the grass. A charging elephant is an impossible shot because of the thick skull covering the front of its head, so all Sewall could do was to hit it in the mouth, merely giving the beast a head-ache...
...Public Health Service's Fight for Life, Strange Cargo and Primrose Path (these two notable because they were produced by major Hollywood studios whose self-censorship is usually effective), Birth of a Nation (Negro trouble in Denver), and an anti-Nazi blast variously entitled Hitler, The Beast of Berlin, Goose Step, and A Nation in Chains...
Along the steaming highway man and beast jogged, followed by a caravan of 100 cars. Duke-ridden by a no-lb. jockey the first 14 miles, a lighter boy the next 14, and finally a little girl - was trotted for eight minutes, walked for four and rubbed down every ten miles at the request of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The doctor, who fasted for eight days prior to the race to "get the poison out of his system," had no S. P. C. A. to protect him. He just loped along, stopping now & then...
...prove to his opponents that he too can be sophisticated, Georges Bernanos opens his novel with a few venomously comic, ugly chapters in which a little 16-year-old wild beast of a girl murders the rural marquis who has seduced her, makes an abject jackass of a hagridden local doctor. That done, Bernanos settles down to his own business...
...editorial comment on the Fuehrer. This time the object of their fury, is an appeal to the American people to devise the "most hellish instruments of defense" against "this creature Hitler," and "ex-guttersnipe," a "mediocre little man," a "fanatical, sub-standard person," a "dirty gutter fighter," and "infamous beast." In Nazi eyes, it is uncivilized to "defend the eternal verities," to "meet the diabolical challenge of "Hitler the Horrible and his horde...