Word: hybrids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first decided to call the freak a "liger" (TIME, July 7), but the Zoo declined to stand for it. It was found that the hybrid was not the child of a lion and tigress, but of a tiger and lioness. Amid plaudits from animals it was decided to call the infant hybrid a "Tigon...
Since lions and tigers do not live in the same regions, their children, which are called "ligers," are rare beasts. Nevertheless, a liger has just been brought to the London Zoo. This unnatural hybrid is the gift of an Indian prince, and was bred by him from a male lion and a female tiger. It is a three-year-old male...
Francine Larrimore, the star, saves the character from being a hybrid bud. She seems to range in age from eight to eighteen, according to the impulse of the moment. By turn she is petulant, frowsy, winning, pusillanimous, firm. But she fuses this all together with her indomitable histrionic spirit, and saves the part from being a teapot tempest of tears. Tom Nesbitt and Wallace Ford provide good shadows for the background, but the aunts are mere stalking horses...
...Manitoba ten dog team of six dogs each mushed for 200 miles to determine the world's champion six-dog outfit. In 23 hours and 46 minutes one Shorty Russick and his hybrid-huskies won the $2,500 prize money, three trophies and a record. Fifteen hundred persons watched the winner reach home...
...mankind will be regenerated. The New York World (see Page 24 for the record of this newspaper for public service) unkindly exposed some unflattering features of his career, and the Hotel Pennsylvania cancelled the arrangements for his congress. His hair is curly, and he claims to be a superior hybrid of Cherokee, Dutch, French, Spanish and Hindu extraction, but not of Negro...