Word: beasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Over the side to the rescue swung a boat crew. They got a line around the beast and hoisted him to the Scatarie's deck, sprawling and bedraggled. His pulse was faint and he seemed near death from exhaustion. Piling rugs and blankets on him. the officers took turns giving him artificial respiration, pressing down on his broad ribs with their hands & knees. Slowly the moose revived, began bellowing and thrashing. The Scatarie's crew lashed him stoutly, carried him in shore and. tying a metal tag to one antler, lowered him over the side to go crashing...
...Kemp, a member of the provincial archives staff, said he and his family sighted the beast last year, but kept it a secret for fear of not being believed. When Major W. H. Langley, clerk of British Columbia's Legislature, told last week of having seen the beast too, Archivist Kemp told his story as follows...
Subscriber Martin notwithstanding, the State Department denies that short, rotund Minister Southard entered Addis Ababa on an ass, states that he entered in a motor car. The Emperor still bestrides an ass when reviewing troops, tendered an ass to Minister Southard who declined the ceremonial beast with thanks...
...Franciscan cowled in black stooped under the lintel and strode into the chamber, followed by a waddling friar and--was it a dog? The Vagabond eyed the Beast fearfully, the hound-like body, the leathery gray hide maculate with patches of glinting hairs, the beak, the swinging pink teats, its ebon Veneficium of Amor between almond eyes. The Beast slunk to the hearth where the Franciscan had established himself comfortably. "Be thou not afraid," the Holy Man intoned softly. "We are of the World Spirit, to comfort such as thou." Further events the Vagabond shall never recall clearly...
...made, he rose from despised cooliehood through common banditry & murder to become the ruler of Manchuria. Capturing Peking in 1926 he made himself in effect a King-Dictator, negotiating on equal terms with foreign governments. Affecting a fondness for tiger's blood, which he drank warm from the beast as an aphrodisiac, Old Chang was one of the last absolute monarchs, complete with a decadent, dissolute court and sure of instant obedience when he said (as he often did), "Cut off that man's [or woman's] head...