Word: beasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brave One (King Brothers; Universal-International). One wild, dark night on the Mexican altiplanicie, the wind screamed and the rain beat and the lightning felled a great branch on a cow, a mother of fighting bulls. By sheer might of instinct, the valiant beast survived long enough to drop her bull calf and to bellow until help came. It was a small boy (Michel Ray), the son of a Mexican vaquero, who found the hungry black buster where he wailed indignantly in the cold and wet, and carried him back to finish his first night in a warm bed. Gitano...
Every time Nehru or somebody big like that comes to see Harvard, out rolls a big black Caddy limousine, a great gleaming beast that looks like a whale with windows. On ordinary days it is kept inside. But once a year the Hasty Pudding Organization brings its Ingenue-of-the-Year to Cambridge, to publicize itself and its little show, and for some reason the Pudding always gets to use the Pusey-boat for the ride down to the airport...
...grinds, rides an ass, and prettily sings the operetta's best-known tune, a farewell aria to her sweetheart-one of those lovely, almost-convincing pieces of lyricism that Offenbach turned out along with his musical ironies. In addition to the ass ridden by Soprano Munsel-a beast named Amos, rented at $30 a night-Actor-Director Ritchard has assigned himself a black charger for a grand entrance as the viceroy. This constitutes something of a concession by Manager Bing, who in recent years has severely cut down on the use of animals in opera-once as many...
...answering the question, "But how make you gentles [i.e., fly larvae] to keep them?" the Arte says: "Of a piece of a beast's liver, hanged in some corner over a pot or little barrel, with a cross stick and the vessel half full of red clay; and as they wax big, they will fall into that troubled clay and so scour them that they will be ready at all times." On the same subject, Walton says: "You may breed and keep gentles thus: take a piece of beast's liver, and with a cross stick hang...
...unusual. Caught up in the passions of the era, the Northern Copperhead papers no less than the Southern press called Abraham Lincoln names that for venomous variety have been unsurpassed before or since in editorial tirades against a President-"The Ape,'' "Simple Susan," "Kentucky Mule," "Illinois Beast," "traitor," "lowborn, despicable tyrant," "cringing, crawling creature...