Word: lions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Joseph Caillaux, Finance Minister boarded a train in Paris attended only by his secretary. He was going single-handed to beard the English lion in its den. Particularly he was going to talk over the chequered table with Mr. Churchill...
...this way and that, around the garbage can, under the kitchen table, cornered him by the scuttlebutt; there began to toy with him in the remorseless sadistic fashion of tall Persian cats with small timid mice. Suddenly the tiny creature, deranged by terror, turned upon its tormentor like a lion, scrabbled into the cat's mouth, put its head down the cat's throat, choked it to death by choking to death within...
Just as the presence of one literary lion redeems, for an ambitious hostess, the most supine soiree, so the presence of a single preeminent conductor enraptures the patrons of summer musical seasons in the U. S. The "catch" of the Hollywood Bowl is Sir Henry J. Wood, famed British conductor. Recently he put his two feet together on the dais, made his prettiest bow to an audience that was probably the largest of his expansive career-an audience that bulged over acres of ground and crowded into the aisle down which, as Sir Henry bowed, a platoon of Welsh bagpipers...
Against gunpowder, what chance has the poor pard, the feeble tiger, the defenseless lion? Lords once of the jungle, they are driven ever back into their forests, away from the soft fat flesh of the deer. But go where they will, gunpowder follows relentlessly until, at last, cornered, they turn, crouch, roar terribly, and leap-into bullets of death-dealing steel. Is this justice, is this sportmanship...
...refined, wearing glasses -a proper man for a writing desk, for an 18th Century escritoire even. But he has put in some few solid years lumber jacking, he has hunted and trapped in nearly every wild section of the world. "For my part, I am going to give the lion and the tiger a sporting chance. I shall hunt them with the bow and arrow...