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...wild celery. At a waterhole a mother giraffe with widespread forelegs is bending down to drink. Beside her are the male, keeping watch, and the calf. Nearby a young Grévy's zebra is suckling its mother. In the background baboons are scrambling over a steep cliff. On the plains of Tanganyika a group of mottled, sinister-looking wild dogs are intently watching a herd of zebra, ready to give chase and cut down a straggler. There is a group of five lions, including a superb black-maned male. Four giant sable antelopes are resting in a copse...
...blackmailer ?2,000 for letters written by Sir Alan Dearden (Franchot Tone) to his onetime mistress. At her rendezvous with the blackmailer Lady Dearden encounters two tourists. When, with Sir Alan Dearden as prosecutor, one of the tourists goes on trial for pushing the other one off a cliff, this chance meeting makes Lady Dearden a key witness; but because her testimony would reveal her deal with the blackmailer, she postpones giving it. When she finally talks in court, it not only frees the prisoner at the bar but puts her husband in his place. When his onetime mistress...
Hubbard announced that Jaakko will be assisted this spring by Cliff Gallagher, Wrestling coach. He also said that the equipment supplied by the H.A.A. will be limited this year to 50 Varsity outfits and 40 Freshmen outfits...
...than half a mile below the shipyard the Clyde bends in a double S. There came the crisis. With an angry crack the stern cable to one tug broke. Before another could be made fast, Queen Mary's bow was out of the channel, moving like a relentless cliff of steel shoreward...
...stoep slopes of the cliff are cut into steps and furrowed with channels whose exact significance remains a mystery. Many other cliffs in the neighborhood have niches cut in them, which apparently had a religious purpose and many of them bear inscriptions. The gigantic walls set out on a desclate peak, framed by snowy mountains and mirrored in the lake, evoke, a striking picture of the power and might of the monarchs who erected them...