Word: leopards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Girl. Explosion inspectors found the demise of the Mandalay one of the most shattering in screen annals. The producers bought an old packet, buried dynamite fore and aft and set her on fire. Just before the blowup, they contrived to have Doris Kenyon and Lloyd Hughes evade the leopard that had escaped in the riot, and catch the last life boat. She had been an underworld wench; he was falsely accused of murder. Mostly as usual, except for the disruption of the Mandalay...
Deep in the African jungle, the natives halted sharply, stiffened, passed the word. A leopard. Stalking began. Stewart Edward White was in the lead, in his hands a bow cut from the sturdy yew trees of California. The bow string was the length of the old cloth yard-27½ in., and it took 80 pounds of pulling power, and much skill to draw one of the 5½ -ft. steel-tipped arrows, also of yew, to the head of the bow. It was a clumsy thing, this bow, difficult to keep clear of the jungle undergrowth, not a thing...
...leopard dropped, was up again, darting for cover, with White after it, followed by two natives with extra quivers of arrows. One carried also a small gun, by way of "mental comfort." The hidden leopard surprised one of White's companions, fell upon him and clawed him. The gun carrier came to the rescue and fired pointblank. More infuriated, the beast turned upon the firer, bit him furiously. White seized the fallen gun and fired the second shot, only to draw the leopard's attack on himself with such force that he was knocked down, leopard...
...leopard had his chance-and, as far as the arrow was concerned, he won. But the penalty of victory was death. After the wounds he inflicted upon Mr. White and the two natives have been healed at Nairobi, Archer White will return to the jungle for six months more of chance-taking, chance-giving, in the style of the Battle of Crecy...
...outskirts of a parade ground were thousands of Zulu tribesmen. In the centre were 5,000 warriors, naked except for loincloths of leopard skin. On their left arms they carried shields, in their right hands their famous assagais (spears). On their heads were enormous spreading headdresses of black feathers. They began a kind of dance, worked themselves up through weird contortions to a "terrific frenzy" that was accompanied by blood-curdling yells and "dirgelike singing of the women." The visit of the Prince had the effect of healing a long-standing breach between the Usutu (Royalists) and the Mandhlakazi...