Word: lioness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vivian Leichner, 6, wandered down a corridor in Cincinnati's Whittier School one afternoon last week and into a Natural History classroom where a William Harwood "of Leland Stanford University," guest lecturer, was showing children how tame a woman trainer had made two bears and a 200-lb. cub lioness. Terrified, Vivian Leichner turned...
Suddenly the lioness leaped, snapped her leash, bowled Vivian over, hugged and clawed her. The bears snarled. All the children shrieked...
Only the school janitor, William Hunter, kept calm. He flung himself on the beast's back, grappled, kicked. Presently Policeman .Howard McMiller ran in to help him. After a fierce struggle, McMiller drew his revolver. Trained to fear firearms, the lioness skulked to a corner...
Alfred Daub, Seattle big game hunter, returned to Nairobi, Africa, last week, from a hunting trip, told of a new way to take wild animals pictures. Tying the carcass of a zebra behind a truck, Hunter Daub and his companions drove around the African veldt. Two lions and a lioness smelled the meat, ran after. While the animals fought for the bait, Hunter Daub sat safely in the truck, cranked his camera...
...smart to roll up to Music Hall on one's bicycle, to sit without gloves, sip a lemonade just flavored with claret and tap one's foot in time to a mazurka. Such goings-on had even the sanction of the late Mrs. Jack Gardner, Boston's leading lioness. Mrs. Gardner was for years ruler of the Pops. Even the conductor, it was said, awaited her nod before he raised his baton...