Word: beasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another lion figure of more elaborate design is worthy of earnest attention. This beast, whose body is covered with red paint and whose mane, head, tail, and paws are in a splendid, firm, yellow glaze, has not perhaps the natural grace of the first one but substitutes for it a force and feeling of austere power that the other lacks. If one allows the imagination to roam one can see here the beginning of the supremacy of realism in Babylonian and Assyrian art. This piece is not the conquest; it is but a preliminary invasion...
...this beast "safe?" Should a 65-year-old monarch ride a prancing, snorting cavalry mount? Discreet inquiry revealed that Steed B102 was nicknamed, by the cavalrymen who were his intimates, "Old Armchair...
...found myself in Paris: I won the European contest, and of course had then to go through with it and go to Rio." L. Rutherford Stuyvesant, U. S. Vice Consul at Calcutta, gunning in Jalaswar Jungle, met a large bear, fired at close range, failed to kill. The wounded beast charged him, knocked him down, cuffed and bit him until Stuyvesant beat on its nose with his gun butt. Then (the Associated Press said) "the animal, in considerable pain, ran away." Harry Ford Sinclair, oilman who went to gaol for contempt of court and the U. S. Senate, was admitted...
When a bull kills a man with a sword it is news. In Tortosa's arena last week a dying black beast snapped the matador's espada from its shoulder with a last convulsive shake, hurled it high into the grandstand where it plunged hilt deep in the breast of an unidentified young man. A bystander, attempting to extricate the weapon, cut his hands severely...
...small boy shouted to them to "look at the big dog." Sitting unnoticed in the stand was the fair's lion, escaped from his cage. Children screamed. The lion roared. Several thousand people rushed to the exits. State troopers drew their revolvers, formed a circle about the beast while keepers lassoed...