Word: lionessed
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Other animals have other miseries: Hella, the lioness, whose second prison-born, litter is taken from her when the cubs reach circus age; Mino, the little red fox, who periodically runs, chasing insanity, in narrowing circles around his cement cage. But there are human sufferers as well. A young man who makes friends with the girl who takes care of Peter, the bicycle-riding chimpanzee, is so horrified by the animals' sufferings that he plans to sacrifice himself in atonement. One night he steals into the elephant's cage, deliberately begins to lead away the elephant's pet, a little...
...Laibach, Jugoslavia a circus lioness, trained to an act in which her cub is placed in a perambulator, thought she recognized her offspring among the spectators. She pulled a 7-month-old infant from its buggy, playfully mauled it about until the trainer recovered it. Unhurt save for a few bruises and scratches, the baby was restored to its prostrate mother...
McMiller, badly scratched, bustled Vivian to a hospital. She was slashed from occiput to chin; her neck and arms were clawed; 50 stitches had to be taken. Cincinnati authorities recovered the lioness for a tetanus examination from Monroe, Ohio, where Harwood had hurried with all his animals in an automobile for another showing...
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...