Word: beasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Miller Dabney Parker, over a period of several years. Among the most recent acquisitions are first editions and original drawings of Crane's illustrations to picture books for children, which sold fifty years ago for a shilling, and are now almost priceless. These include "Mother Hubbard", "Beauty and the Beast", and "The Five Little Pigs", which subsequently ran into many editions under the name of Walter Crane's Picture Books. Along with these were many letters and sketch-books. Some time ago the collection was augmented with the receipt of Crane's famous "Illustrated Grimm's Fairy Tales", and Reynard...
Number of bitten moujiks: 19. Number of wolves: 1. Moujiks cured: 16. Moujiks dead: 3. The wolf ran amuck in Smolensk province in March 1886. For two days & two nights it wrandered, at tacking everyone it met. One badly bitten man finally slew the beast with an axe. A Russian physician took the victims to Paris. Pasteur treated 16 of them with a new, intensive treatment (two inoculations daily). The three patients who died were treated by the then ordinary method (one inoculation in several days). The Tsar gave Pasteur a diamond cross of the Order of St. Anne...
...Pressagent McClain came upon a tribe of natives all naked save that one of them sported a neat, snap-brim brown hat. Removing the hat, Mr. McClain was surprised to find the label: Brooks Bros.,? Madison Ave., New York. And although the film shows many a fierce jungle beast, the troupe spent six weeks at $2,000 a day trying to persuade some crocodiles to snap...
...Agnus is Latin for lamb, a beast revered because St. John called Jesus the "Lamb of God.'' Agues the name (Inez is the same name) derives from Greek (h)agne, which means chaste...
...seemed, some one had found a wonderful prehistoric lizard in an ice cake on Glacier Island. The animal was 42 ft. long, was covered with fur in perfect condition. Scientists, knowing that no lizard has fur, thought at first that the creature might be another ogopogo, the mysterious beast sometimes seen on the Pacific coast by imaginative people (TIME, Aug. 4). Dr. Barnum Brown, lizard expert of the American Museum (Manhattan) took the news more seriously, sent a telegram to Dr. Charles E. Bunnell, president of Alaska Agricultural College & School of Mines, asking him to investigate. Two days after...