Word: lions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...France, Ida Rubenstein "the superb," lion huntress, onetime fiancée of Poet D'Annunzio of Italy, organized a charity fête to finance a search for Amundsen and Ellsworth in the Pourquoi Pas, ice-worthy ship of Explorer Jean Charcot...
...Church and who will abstain from heresy-hunting, except as provided under the Church laws. But there was another candidate last year, Dr. Macartney of Philadelphia. He was not a mild, sweet-tempered, retiring, well-beloved professor. He was a vigorous younger preacher, ready to become a Lion of the Lord. His platform was a war a outrance upon all Liberals. And he was elected by a slim margin. This was due, partly, to William J. Bryan's advocacy. An important factor was that the attitude of many good church folk toward new ideas in religion had shifted from...
...York is out to make itself the most popular convention city for fraternal orders. For the paltry sum of twenty-five dollars the State Convention of Lions clubs secured a real lion, guaranteed not to get too rough with his name-sakes, and the Central Park zoo stands ready to supply any organization with its chosen animal, all the way from snakes to hippopotami, at a charge depending on the gross tonnage of the beast...
...from 1918 to the present day and the South African lion has been tamed by the greatest of all tamers?Government responsibility. In June of last year, he succeeded Premier Smuts (TIME, June 30) and with the help of the Labor Party mustered a majority in the House of Assembly. To get Labor's help, he was obliged to renounce any immediate effort towards secession; becoming Premier, he has buried this bugaboo, in many speeches has pronounced its funeral oration. It is therefore certain that he extends a welcome to the Prince of Wales not only in his own name...
...women, thin men?these blithe barbarians nightly astound sober Manhattan. But the circus this year is different?for one supreme reason: the carnivora are gone. There are no wild animal acts. No sharply smiling lady makes small boys lose their peanuts when she puts her golden head in the lion's mouth; no clown breathes the naughty story he will not tell the crowd into the leopard's sullen ear, most earnestly hoping that the creature will not take offense. The baleful tigers, too, are gone. Many marveled at this. "Who," they asked, "has at last discerned that the interest...