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...difficult for a white man to hear them. They often sit on stumps at a considerable distance from one another and murmur softly. Apparently each Bororo is muttering to himself. Actually they are telling stories which are the primitive stuff of all humor. Sample: "Once upon a time the jaguar had a fight with the rabbit. The rabbit won!" Then all the Bororos burst out laughing...
...serpent pattern. A large female figures from Chancay shows the sophistication of Peruvian coastal art about 1200 A.D. Four smaller figurines showing costume types complete the collection. Also on exhibit is another object of great rarity at present on loan in the Museum. It is the figure of a Jaguar carved in green turquoise in the Chavin style of about...
Some feared that the legend of Hemingway virility was about to develop into a new Byronism. Quipped Westbrook Pegler: "Ernest Hemingway-the fur-bearing author. . . ." Critic Bernard De Voto observed: "So far none of Ernest Hemingway's characters has had any more consciousness than a jaguar." Critic Max Eastman wrote his Bull in the Afternoon, one day traded blows with angry Author Hemingway in the most diverting literary brawl since Theodore Dreiser punched Sinclair Lewis. There was a feeling abroad that Hemingway was a little too obsessed with sex, a little too obsessed with blood for the sake...
Author Sanderson and his wife (they were on their honeymoon) had no run-ins with larger animals. A jaguar watched from a tree as he cleaned his gun, fled when he said...
...instead of being made from metal plates. Others: fragile bells of Venetian glass, Italian Renaissance bells of bronze, children's play bells from 17th-Century Spain, Austrian bells of chased silver, a Chinese porcelain bell of the Sung dynasty. One tiny gold bell in the form of a jaguar's head, found in Costa Rica, can be viewed only in the presence of Mr. Spear. He wears it on his watch chain...