Word: keepers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Curiosity was too much for one guest, a wealthy garage keeper from Ajaccio. Like a cuckoo in a clock he flung wide his shutters, popped out his head, shrilly screamed for help. One pistol cracked. Ajaccio's cuckoo dropped with a bullet through the heart...
They won, for example, when Congo, a pigmy elephant, tried to walk into Dr. Ditmars' office, got stuck in the doorway. Congo snorted and started to shake the walls down. Dr. Ditmars at once broke into a noisy, fake argument with a keeper. The argument attracted Congo's attention. He quieted down and keepers eased him from the doorway...
They won again when Hannibal, their largest and fiercest lion, got into a cage which a keeper was scrubbing. The keeper "did the one thing that would save his life. He took the lion completely by surprise. He emitted a blood-curdling yell, sprang into the air and with all his strength hurled his water-filled pail and his wet mop full in the face of the astonished beast. Hannibal was so unnerved by this attack that he tried to beat a hasty retreat over the slippery floor. His feet flew out from under him and he turned an undignified...
...Arietta Game Preserve in northern New York, a keeper tied a clothes line to a black cherry tree. A beaver wanted the tree for a dam, chewed it close to the ground, dragged it as far as the line permitted. Then, instead of biting off the line, as it could have done with one chop of its four big flat front teeth, the beaver gnawed through the tree twice more, once just above the rope girdle, then just below: carried the two tree sections away, left the tethered bit behind...
...leader of the merrier element was James Leary Flood. In his blood was an instinct for the fleshpots; in his bank, money for it. His father was James Clair ("Bonanza King") Flood, onetime saloon keeper, later owner of the Comstock Lode with William S. O'Brien, James...