Word: lions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...placed at right angles to each other, with a large tower at the juncture. Between the wings will be a court, for which shrubbery, statuary, arcades, and water-basins have been planned. One of the most prominent of the statues which will decorate this space, is a huge bronze lion, the gift of His Highness, Johann Albrecht, the Prince-Regent of Brunswick. This monument stood formerly in front of Brunswick Castle, where it was placed in 1166 by Duke Henry, the Lion of Saxony, as a symbol of his territorial sovereignty...
...Outsiders" is different from Mr. Klein's other plays and must be judged by different standards. "The Lion and the Mouse", "The Third Degree" and "The Gamblers" all deal with some specific phase of a contemporary American problem. But "The Outsiders" has no such special interest. In fact the question of whether "The Outsiders" get in is forgotten in our anxiety to find whether or not young Blakely gets...
From teeming Lion's fertile womb...
After a month spent along the Wandorobo, Coolidge was joined by Colby, and they started for Mt. Suswa to shoot lions. One night after the latter had obtained several fine specimens, a stockade was built and a dead antelope placed nearby as a decoy. On this carcass Coolidge arranged a camera with a string attached to the shutter and then waited inside the stockade. He had taken two splendid flashlight pictures of lionesses and was rearranging the camera when a large lion charged him. He ran and dove through the door of the enclosure. Next morning the lion's tracks...
...several narrow escapes form infuriated elephants and rhinos, once stopping a charging elephant only ten feet off. Buffaloes, also, were very dangerous. Lion hunting, though Colby said, is the finest sport of all, for the hunter is pitted against another trained hunter who knows much more about it than he does. Lions are crafty, and often seem cowardly, for they know that their charge is dangerous only within 40 yards. Once started, however, nothing but instant death can stop them...