Word: beasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three years ago our tutor guilelessly slipped three cards into the hands of the attendant. Three books he wanted. In time, which we hestitate to define in its Widenerian concept, he was informed that there was no report of them. Then the Widener Beast sat up on its hind legs, smoothed its scales, and smilingly queried, "May we trace the books and send you a card?" The spider could no better entice the fly. "Please," our tutor answered. Every month now he returns to the lair with the same three cards and receives the same benign reply. But the Beast...
...Fascists are the Philistines. Mussolini is the Biblical "beast of the iron teeth," and he will take over Spain...
...With immorality running as high as it is, the Milles nudes would be as bad as teasing an already enraged beast...
Greatest tropical animal rarity in the Western Hemisphere is the solenodon, a little insectivorous beast resembling the opossum, smaller but with a similar ratty tail and a limber prehensile snout. Zoologists know it as the family Solenodontidae, which has but a single genus: solenodon. Classified as an extremely primitive form of animal, its skeletal structure is prehistoric. It dwells in rocky, mountain burrows on the islands of Haiti and Cuba only. A victory for any U. S. zoologist is the capture, transportation and sustenance of a solenodon over any length of time. Since October 1935, when Washington's last...
...from his bed at 3 a. m. last year with an offer to defend the Nancy Titterton bathtub murderer he refused with a snort of outraged morality. "I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole. It's a dirty, nasty affair. The man is a beast. The public is strongly against him. As a matter of fact that guy is sitting in the electric chair right...