Word: beasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three years ago young Clyde Beatty, famed wild animal trainer, was attacked by a tiger. As he went down, an African lion named Nero leaped upon the tiger, knocked it across the cage. After that Nero was Trainer Beatty's favorite beast, was the tamest in the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus. Last fortnight Animal Man Beatty was rehearsing his act at Peru, Ind. He cracked his whip over Nero's head. Nero snarled, crouched, sprang. As Trainer Beatty went down sharp teeth tore through the flesh of his leg. Assistants rushed into the cage, whipped the lion away, carried...
Akamazoo, the most spirited horse on the Harvard polo squad, died yesterday. The deep grief felt in the Harvard stables indicates the esteenf in which this chestnut-brown pony was held. It was this plucky beast which lead the Crimson attack on the Lancers on Saturday, and from its back Captain F. S. Nicholas '33 was able to score six goals...
...Dinner that he hopped down from his position on the coat of arms in the yellow dining room and scampered up the middle of the floor to the table where the Master and tutors were sitting, waiting for an opportunity to open the celebrations. Within a second the clever beast was on the table, peering around at the occupants of the room with visible embarrassment. As if inspired, K. B. Murdock '16, Master of the House, rose to the occasion, doing his duty by the rabbit-god in a short speech of introduction. "This is the rabbit which is Leverett...
...unit, you want people to eat in the House; and if you want people to eat in the House, you can scarcely want less than ten meals per person per week; one a day and three besides or two a day Monday through Friday. As for getting the beast to drink, he may holler if you pinch him in the pocketbook, but where else will you pinch him? You could put it up to University 4, a shocking alternative but the only...
...ribby old cow from knowing a thing or two of the world's ways and expressing herself in song? The ribby old cow may be too old for milk. To be comprehensible to humans, she may have to make herself ridiculous, become a synthetic vaudeville kind of beast with humans installed fore & aft to walk, talk and sing for her. Even so, such a cow serves excellently to point the plot of Jack & the Beanstalk, a "fairy opera for the childlike" with libretto by John Erskine (The Private Life of Helen of Troy), music by Louis Gruenberg. Opera...