Word: beasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fearless wild animal trainer." Mr. Beatty is left alone in a great cage in which there are some 40 hissing, snarling, rumbling lions and tigers. These he persuades to form various artistic groupings by means of a whip, chair and frequently used revolver. Mr. Beatty's most showmanlike beast is Kazan, a large old lion who quails and cowers very perceptibly when the trainer stares him into submission. But occasionally Kazan is unable to stifle a yawn...
...breeks and shining boots, Cinemacter Charles Chaplin rode out with the Duke of Westminster at Envermeu, France to hunt wild boar. Presently a boar broke cover, but there was no chase. The boar charged the comedian. When they were 100 ft. apart, someone else in the party brought the beast down with a rifle-bullet. That night Mr. Chaplin ate boar, declaring he liked it better on the platter than on the hoof. Next day, after several sessions with a masseur to ease limbs strained by his perilous riding, he cancelled a trip to the Grand National Steeplechase...
...wink worth $50.000, a tumult has broken forth and moral prelates and amoral Republicans are piling advice on vice. The Tammany Tiger is trying to purr like a pussy cat but it seems to have an impolitic foog in its throat which gives it the sound of an angry beast caught at another's carrion. And from what one hears the stench will last long after the scandalous corpse has been cleared from the city streets...
...mind Sculptor Hardiman decided that when he was ordered to make an equestrian statue of Lord Haig he was really intended to glorify the British armies which the Field Marshal-distiller led. Accordingly he designed a heroic figure, stronger, stockier than Douglas Haig ever was, astride a monumental beast like a horse of a Roman conqueror...
...fellow horse-author, Lieut-Colonel S. G. Goldschmidt, on the proper method of jumping a fence.* Last week he dropped his feud with Col. Goldschmidt long enough to blast the Hardiman horse as a "fiddle-headed, peacocky, weak-necked, flat-sided, long-backed, straight-shouldered, herring-gutted useless beast...