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Died. Hermit, about 25, spotted hyena of the Washington, D. C., Zoo. During the entire 12 years of his captivity, he crouched in his black, airless den, fought attendants who tried to drag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 30, 1928 | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

...south why not take them to Georgia where there is little to amuse the population except an occasional lynching? That Georgia should get them is but another example of the supreme unfitness of things. Nor, it might be added, is Coral Gables any place for a self-respecting hyena. If P. T. Barnum were alive he would realize that there is a place for all things--and that in its present condition Florida is no place for a menagerie...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GONE SOUTH | 3/25/1927 | See Source »

...been heartily cursed in return. That night, as he lay in the dark, he heard a ghastly laugh, he writes, "long and loud, whining and wailing up from the forest, up from the gully, so I judged. I tried to reassure myself. Surely it was the howl of a hyena feasting on the remains of the dead buck? But even as my mind was suggesting this, my subconscious self knew that it lied. That criminal human outcry, it could issue from no animal throat. . . . Somewhere out where the hispid branches swayed, I know there was a man with white canine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Africrescendo* | 8/25/1924 | See Source »

...should assume a cachinnatory expression." Truly the Harvard man is lord of the universe! This uncouth and unlettered savage at once changed his whole demeanor. He forthwith produced a horse eleven hands high, 1 which he bestrode. He then vaulted through the woods. I laid hands on a vagrant hyena and did likewise. He swam over lakes; I also swam over lakes. He bounded-over torrents; I also bounded over torrents. He scaled cliffs; I also scaled cliffs. At last we stopped before the door of a wigwam. In the darkness within I could just discern a female form...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE QUIZZICAL CLUB. | 4/5/1881 | See Source »

...detail of the theatricals in aid of the H. U. B. C. which took place in Horticultural Hall, April 17, 18, and 19; but we are unwilling to allow such excellent performances to pass without more than casual mention. The opening play on Friday night was "The Laughing Hyena, "in which the characters could not have been more suitably cast. Messrs. Clark, Bowditch, Shaw, and Dumaresq were all that could be desired in their several parts. Then followed the somewhat ancient, but still interesting "Naiad Queen." Several new songs were introduced, which were very acceptably rendered by Mr. Szemelenyi...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dramatic. | 5/2/1873 | See Source »

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