Word: leopards
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...American Museum of Natural History, Manhattan. Again he procured elephants and other African fauna, narrowly escaping with his life when a bull elephant gored him and kneeled on his chest and head (his wife rescued him, mulilated); when, his rifle empty, he had to throttle a wounded 80-pound leopard; when he contracted "Black Water," vilest of tropic fevers. Gorillas were the subject of his latest studies, pursued in the gorilla sanctuary he had been instrumental in having set aside by Belgium. He embarked on his last trip last spring with George ("Kodak") Eastman, Rochester, N. Y., camera maker...
...rhinoc'rus" was among the horde of beasts, birds and reptiles captured by Dr. Mann, but there were: a shoebill stork* and some 400 other birds including hawks, crested tawny eagles, white-headed vultures, paradise finches, rare parrots; an elephant shrew; the largest leopard in captivity; civet cats, water mongooses, baboons, purple-faced monkeys, hyenas. Among the antelopes quarantined at Boston were five impalla, most graceful of their family; a baby eland, blind in one eye from the blazing grass in which he was captured; several dik-diks, no bigger than jackrabbits...
...Ritz (in a fur trimmed coat of beige and green velvet with a close fitting hat) than she sallied forth again to the establishments of Patou and Redfern (in a regal purple hat exactly matching a long swishing cloak). Behind stepped Princess Ileana, demure in a blue frock, a leopard fur clasped about her throat, a small tan silk...
...Leon Lipschitz of New York City; Milton Rosenkranz of Union City, N. J., and Joshua Willard '24 of Minneapolis, Minn. From the second year men, those picked are: Joseph Benjamin Brennan of Savannah, Ga.; Erwin Nathaniel Griswold of Cleveland, Ohio; Moses Samuel Huberman '23 of Portland, Me.; Nathan Leopard Jacobs of Bayonne, N. J.; Louis Leventhal Joffe of Baltimore, Md.; Carlisle Elwood Mau of Provo, Utab; William Mitchell of Washington, D. C., James Benjamin Powell of Ashland, O.; Howard Darker Sharp '25 of Tulsa, Okla.; Archie Harvey Siegel of Superior, Wis.; John Harvey Tracy of Chicago, III.; William Charles Waring...
...Leopards has been rigorously suppressed, but occasionally its members meet, don leopard skins, hunt down and slay a human, and partake of the remains...