Word: lions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Valenciennes, France, topers sipped blear-eyed one midnight last week. Suddenly they stared aghast as a lion bounded in at the door. Some ran; four stayed, one laughing loudly, saying, "I've seen them before!" The lion took a leg of mutton from the counter, stalked out the back door. A tiger, escaped from the same circus, ate an entire lamb in a butcher's shop, was captured fast asleep...
Hold That Lion (Douglas MacLean). Ignorant of the fact that in South Africa "cat" means "lion," Douglas MacLean sets out to get a pussy for his sweetheart. As if this were not embarrassment enough for one motion picture comedy, he loses his trousers at a most aristocratic function the very same evening. It is all for the best, however, and funny...
Eastman. At the age of 72, George ("Kodak") Eastman, of Rochester, N. Y., has been spending the summer photographing and shooting big game in Kenya, Tanganyika and the Belgian Congo. Near Nairobi natives chaired him on their shiny shoulders for slaying an eight-foot lion with two express bullets. Last fortnight came a letter from Explorer Carl E. Akeley, with the Eastman party and in charge of collections for the African Hall of the American Museum of Natural History, saying that the Kenya veld, once a hunter's paradise, is now stripped of fauna. "The unhappy remnant...
Acquaintances of Governor Hamlin, cognizant of his onetime Cabinet contacts (Assistant Secretary of the Treasury 1893-7, 1913-14), his judicious oratory,* his expertness on tariff and kindred questions, wonder. Does Mr. Hamlin, busy banker, able Democrat, social lion, rely upon the slightly garbled efforts of the daily newspapers for his philosophy...