Word: gorillas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wrinkled little face stared up from a shapeless bag of black hair. Acid burns had disfigured the baby gorilla's face-its look was malevolent. But the baby, named Buddy, was sick...
...came to the U.S. and got a job as a kennel man with Mrs. Gertrude Lintz, who collected pets. Buddy belonged to Mrs. Lintz; she had bought the little creature from the captain of an African freighter. But Buddy belonged spiritually to Kroener. He helped nurse the little gorilla back to health. Buddy grew, learned to walk erect, romped with innocent menace around Mrs. Lintz's Brooklyn home with the taciturn, dour-faced ex-butcher. The baby grew up into 200 pounds of gorilla. Mrs. Lintz, who had a cage waiting, decided that the time had come to lock...
Buddy, Kroener was convinced, blamed him for the imprisonment. The gorilla's rage became smoldering and volcanic. Several times he lunged through the bars at Kroener, who saved himself only by his agility. Nevertheless, the care of the gorilla had become an obsession with the one-time butcher. He refused to let anyone else take Buddy in charge...
When Mrs. Lintz finally sold the gorilla to the circus, Kroener insisted on going along. Buddy became "Gargantua the Great." Together, the pair of them toured the country in the big show, Gargantua glitteringly housed in a huge, air-conditioned cage of steel bars and plate glass. Kroener lived like any circus keeper. Gargantua, the vengeful, watched with an animal's unforgetful sleepless obsession for the misstep that would bring Kroener within reach of his huge hands. Once the gorilla caught his keeper's arm, yanked it through the bars, bit it so savagely that Kroener was crippled...
...other blot is apt to frighten subjects who are unhappy or unstable, but "normal" people merely call it a bearskin rug or an animal's skin. Schizoid personalities sometimes see a man's face in the dark shadows, but sexually frustrated women see a gorilla or some other strong masculine figure, chasing them...