Word: lions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more travel picture (this time African and made by a Captain von Hoffman) in which savages display smirking artificialities much like those so constantly practiced by semi-civilized migrates to the cinema lots of Southern California. As they go through the motions of tribal ritual-king-crowning, lion-hunting, getting married, they manage not to fall into the anticipated postures of improper ingratiation. But they are always ready to roll their eyeballs, with evident satisfaction, at the camera man, thus detracting from the illusion that their curious behaviour is entirely unaffected...
...clown, entered a bullfight arena where his helpless sprawlings made him funny. Marceline preferred to say that he had run away from the tailor to whom he had been apprenticed, crawled under a circus tent and fallen asleep. Then an old clown had saved him from the crouching lion against whose cage he had dozed and taught him the astonishing art of making people laugh. All the legends made Marceline a Spaniard, but he talked with a tight cockney whine in his voice...
...Jonson, although he did not enjoy the title of Poet Laureate, was the first to occupy the equivalent position. Before him there had been versifier? to the king, for example Gulielmus Peregrinus, versificator regis to Richard Coeur de Lion. Sir William Davenant succeeded Jonson in 1638 in an identical capacity, and it was not until 1670, two years after Sir William's death, that Dryden became the first to hold the official title of Poet Laureate, an appointment that has continued to the present day. Poets Laureate since Dryden: Shadwell, Tate, Rowe, Eusden, Cibber, Whitehead, Warton, Pye, Southey, Wordsworth...
...schools, who seems to be practically a member of the British Secret Service but he has appointed Mr. U. J. Hermann, a well known sportsman, to search every history book in the public library for traces of the "British taint", or in brief, to go gunning for the British lion...
...previous librarian had been discharged through the efforts of Judge Frederick Bausman. Judge Bausman recently contributed an anti-British article to the American Mercury, which is edited by Mr. Henry L. Mencken. Every loyal supporter of Mayor Thompson wishes that these gentlemen will have a happy and successful lion hunt. It would be poor sportsmanship to wish anything else, or to point out that not only the Revolutionary War, but all succeeding ones, are now concluded by treaties of peace...