Word: beasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks of hunting big game in East Africa (bag thus far: five lions, 38 assorted wild critters), beefy Tenor Lauritz Melchior had a narrow squeak. The Metropolitan's veteran dragonslayer fired as a charging Cape buffalo came at him, fired again & again & again, finally dropped the one-ton beast less than ten feet away...
...next day, Roland said plenty -but not about the correspondence. "If the Dominicans are your enemies," he slyly demanded, "withdraw your ambassador and declare war." At 8 p.m., the Haitian government answered "that loathsome beast" by announcing that it had already recalled its ambassador. But Roland was hardly satisfied. The following afternoon he sneeringly challenged the Haitians: "I give you a rendezvous at the border, gentlemen, which I know you will not dare to keep, cowards that...
Died. Christian ("Bebe") Berard, 46, French artist and designer of costumes and theatrical sets (Beauty and the Beast, The Madwoman of Chaillot), credited with inspiring fashion's 1947 New Look; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Paris...
...sequel, Weidman barbecued some of the pin-striped denizens of Manhattan's garment district. In his latest (and sixth) novel, the tiger wears tweeds and its hunting grounds are the knotty-pine fastnesses of a Madison Avenue newspaper syndicate; but when the price is right, the beast still shows its breed...
...Beast of Burden. This chromium-plated razzle-dazzle was not only G.M.'s recognition of the approaching buyers' market for all cars; it was also a salute to the role which the automobile plays in U.S. life. To the average American, a car is much more than a chromium-jawed beast of burden. It is the next thing to being a member of the family, regarded as affectionately as the Bedouin regards his camel, or the Mongolian tribesman his shaggy pony. It is both a necessity and luxury, a help in making a livelihood and a means...