Word: beasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expressive in every phase, her gestures admirably restrained. Most critics led their readers to believe that her interpretation was practically perfect. But Madame Flagstad is not yet a titan, though she exhibited great spirit when she managed her own horse, sang bravely into his ear no matter how the beast twitched and scuffed...
...Middle Ages the belief was prevalent that the savage unicorn was soothed by the sight of a virgin, would approach softly and lay his head in a true virgin's lap. Though this notion gave rise to no little scandal, no one managed to trap the elusive beast by virgins or otherwise. A bit of unicorn horn ground to powder was regarded by a medieval physician as the most potent remedy he could administer, but because undisputed horns turned up so rarely the price ranged from...
...SCARLET BEAST-Francis Gerard- Longmans, Green ($2.50). Allegedly historical romance about the Punic Wars; a silly book...
...statues of Egypt, Babylonia, India and Angkor-Vat in French Indo-China. The Mayas of what are now Guatemala, British Honduras and Yucatan, he says, could never have evolved the controversial earth-monster of Quirigua from native American animals; therefore this monster must be the makara, a legendary beast, part crocodile, part elephant, evolved by sculptors in Asiatic India...
...originator of wrestling with cattle, whose disgusting act was holding the poor beast by the nose with his teeth, was on his death eulogized by a gaseous columnist, saying his like would not be seen again. A humane animal lover retorted: "It is sincerely hoped there never would...