Word: lionessed
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...mundane vibrations" of the surrounding air into delicious tangerines ("The method, alas! is beyond the reach of the world's hungry hordes"). Another, Bhaduri Mahasaya ("The Levitating Saint"), often hung in the air, meditating without visible means of support. Another, called Krishnananda, shared his hermitage with a lioness, which he had taught to appreciate a strictly vegetarian diet and to utter the mystical word "Aum" (meaning "cosmic vibratory power") "in a deep, attractive growl...
...diplomat, in the center of Europe throughout the twenties and thirties, but completely oblivious to the malignant growth of militarism. Constantly prodded through Miss Hellman by the woman he loves, but never marries, he continues blithely to believe in conciliation until the war breaks out. His wife, a social lioness, is equally calm. Both remain blind to their mistakes until their son, seriously injured in the war, condemns them for placidity and denseness...
Gabriela Mistral, handsome, 56-year-old Chilean poetess (Los Sonetos de la Muerte), found herself still the lioness of social Stockholm a fortnight after receiving the Nobel Prize (TIME, Nov. 26) from towering King Gustaf. Poetess Mistral found Sweden's social democracy "a century ahead of everything else," but prepared to move on to another, gentler climate. Last a resident of Brazil's fair-&-warmer Petropolis, she would now head for California's Los Angeles, hopes to find a home, an office, and settle down...
Outside Kruger National Park, South Africa's famed wildlife sanctuary, prowled a white man and his two black servants, looking for lions. Having no rifle, they set a steel trap-against the law-came back next day to find a full-grown lioness caught by the neck, roaring in agony. Not daring to approach her, they squatted to debate while the frantic animal panted. In the evening the white man decided to wait for the lioness to die, then collect the skin. They waited ten days before the shrunken, weakened beast relaxed and the skinning could begin...
Captain Alec S. Cunningham-Reid, M.P., divorced Social Lioness Ruth Mary Clarisse Ashley in 1940 and sued for half her $400,000 annual income. One thing he could not forget about their honeymoon was her insistence that they share her wealth because "no decent woman likes to have a man live with her in charity." Later that year, M.P.s accused the Captain of visiting Doris Duke Cromwell in Honolulu to duck the Blitz. He said he went to evacuate 500 British children. Minister of Information Brendan Bracken called it "beachcombing in Honolulu...