Word: lionessed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tarzan and his chimpanzee chum when they rescue her from a tumble into a morass. When he places an amoral hand on her thigh, she socks him, he socks her back into the muck, swings off into the tangled forest. On his next visit he fights off an enraged lioness, but when he zips back into his trees, nobody will believe Eleanor's story. Then one day Eleanor, clad in a neat white jumper suit, strolls into the bush. Tarzan snatches her away to his eyrie. On the bank of his jungle swimming hole Tarzan makes funny motions, meaning...
...relations with prostitutes, Mr. Davidson had kept in the limelight by appearing at a suburban movie house, exhibiting himself in a barrel, being ejected from a nudist camp. His last exploit, lion-taming, ended when during the course of his act he accidentally trod on the toe of a lioness whose mate leaped at him, mortally mauled him before his 16-year-old girl assistant could come to the rescue...
...carver. His father was founder and first president of the Memorial Craftsmen. Yet tombstones are not his only interest. He is president and chief benefactor of the Madison (Wis.) Zoo. President Schlimgen could scarcely wait last week for the tombstone convention to close. Back in Madison, Princess, his favorite lioness, had had a litter of cubs...
...ring crowds every waking moment with pomp and circumstance, changes from gorgeous to still more gorgeous uniforms half a dozen times a day, stuffs his fat but mighty-muscled frame with much raw meat, tosses off champagne with gusto and indulges his every whim, from keeping a fond lioness at home to forcing the League of German maidens to make pilgrimages to the shrine of his late first wife who was a Swedish Baroness...
...last week's audience who remembered Milka Ternina, dramatically exciting but plain to look at. Emma Eames had beauty but her emotions were chilled. In pre-War days Olive Fremstad and Geraldine Farrar were rivals for the role. Fremstad, at heart a Wagnerian, played it like a lioness. Farrar's conception was small, a little petulant. After Maria Jeritza's first breath- taking performance in 1921 the part was hers for the ten years she was at the Metropolitan. Upon her leaving, the opera was dropped from the repertoire until last week's revival...