Word: beasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Best authorities agree that Max Baer or any other hard-hitter might knock out a cow or bull by punching it between the eyes, but it would certainly not kill the beast, certainly would break the puncher's hand. There is no record of a prizefighter's trying it. However Max Baer, while helping his father in the butchering business in California, sometimes slugged cattle unconscious by punching them in the short ribs. Jack Dempsey, the late James J. Corbett and other pugilists have tried their hand at steer-knocking in the Chicago stockyards. The knocker wields...
...lions, two tigers, two cougars, an Indian leopard, a male buffalo, a rhinoceros named Toodles, an elephant named Nancy, an agouti, a coati-mundi and some 300 other kinds of beast, bird & fish used to be on view in Coalman George Fulmer Getz's zoo at Holland, Mich. This week a larger public may look at them when with grunts, growls, roars, squeals and speeches the Chicago Zoological Society opens its new, 133-acre zoo at Brookfield, 15 mi. southwest of Chicago...
...suit district turned out with rubber razzberries and flaunting banners, to welcome the General's famed grandson. Dr. Ernst Franz Sedgwick Hanfstaengl came steaming in on the Europa with the reputation of being Adolf Hitler's strapping, eagle-browed soul mate. "Down with Hitler and his beast Hanfstaengl!" screamed swarthy members of the crowd of 1,500. "Ship the Hitler agent back! Down with Hanfstaengl...
...most U. S. citizens, who refuse to think back to 1776, Revolution is unAmerican, unethical and downright unpatriotic. In the zoo of horrifying future events, it remains the most ferocious tiger of them all. Unalarmed by roars that are still caged Author Soule has examined the nature of the beast, pointed out the size and thickness of the bars, and in the calm tones of an oldtime liberal announced that it would be some time before the audience would have to start running for its life. After analyzing the nature of revolution, its causes and symptoms, Author Soule proceeds...
...summer vacation in Europe. He expects to tour the continent by automobile and promises to be on the lookout for all the outstanding ball-toters that may be lying around loose. He may even pick up some plays that will fool the Princeton Tiger when that dangerous beast invades the Stadium next fall...