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Word: hyenas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...game he can still get with a full license includes three lions, leopard, cheetah, lynx, common hippopotamus, crocodile, hyena, wild dog, jackal, wart hog, badger, baboon, civet, buffalo, ordinary zebra, waterbuck, wildebeest, impala reedbuck, eland gazelle, the lesser kudu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Paradise Lost | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

...aard-wolf is a repulsive, hyena-like little animal which lives in colonies underground and is becoming extinct because, like the others above, it is not very good at avoiding collectors who want it for its rarity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Paradise Lost | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

...southern jungles. Nonetheless Director Elliott's lion and tiger stage a good if indecisive fight, as do numerous other animals in a lavish variety of combats. Pythons grapple with a leopard, a water buffalo, a man. A crocodile fights a tiger, a binturong a lizard, a bear a hyena. A stampede of elephants helps out Devil Tiger's slim plot by trampling the leader of a safari. An amorous fellow, he has been gazing upon the pretty girl of the party, bathing naked. So numerous are the animals and so loud their snarls, grunts and roars that when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 19, 1934 | 2/19/1934 | See Source »

...moving and most entertaining film released since "Bomb Shell." Like that Harlow epic, it is no esthete's reward, not yet a De Mille nogrom of the conventions; it is purely and simply a play-up to the inimitable James. Cagney twists his mat face into all sorts of hyena snarls; e bungs the ladies in the snout, and telescopes their jaws as the occasion requires; he enters the picture as a tough usher, graduates to the jewel thief class, kicks up a jump to a movie star's berth, and finishes the whirlwind by aiding the police...

Author: By S. H. W., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 2/5/1934 | See Source »

...which is a huge flyswatter intended, presumably, to be an ear, it is the cut of James Montgomery Flagg in the March 21 issue of TIME. Flagg's mug appears as though it had been clawed by a lion, chewed by a bear and laugh-bitten by a hyena, and, if ever kissed, which I doubt, such a favor would be attempted only by a horsefly or a tarantula. This clay model visage looks like a map of No-Man's-Land minus the compassion which even that scene would evoke. An earthquake must have been under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 11, 1932 | 4/11/1932 | See Source »

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