Word: lions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the merry Jester becomes serious one is inclined to quarrel with his conclusions. The Business School is not the man-eating lion it is depicted to be. The allocation of vocational training in business to this new graduate school is the very best thing that could have happened for the College. It is at last free to become truly liberal in its arts and teaching. Its old vocational burden is graciously removed...
...collar that existing makers of hard collars began to feel the competition seriously, began to make soft collars themselves, in alleged violation of the Van Heusen patents. Chief among these were Cluett, Peabody & Co., Earl & Wilson, Manhattan Shirt Co., Hall Hartwell Co., George P. Ide Co., Vanzandt, Inc. and Lion Shirt...
...interesting rhymes : one about the three foxes, who had no stockings or soxes, but kept their handkerchiefs in cardboard boxes ; about rice pudding ; about Little Bo Peep and Little Boy Blue (they loved each other) ; about the Doormouse and the Doctor (they hated each other) : about four animals - elephant, lion, goat, snail - who were friends. With every rhyme there are pictures by E. H. Sheppard which are better than the rhymes if you like pictures better...
...high plains to the south of Nairobi in British East Africa the monkeys jabbered noisily as they swung themselves from the mangrove to the coconut palm and clambered about the juniper and olive trees. The chattering stopped; curious faces peered through the leaves toward the ground where a disconsolate lion roamed through the tall grass...
...hundred African lions, 40 Bengal tigers, 20 leopards, 100 pumas, 150 black bears, 1,000 buffaloes, 500 elk, 500 deer, 400 wild boars, 400 peccaries, 40,000 ringneck pheasants, 10,-000 Hungarian partridges, 5,000 bobwhite quail, 400 wild turkeys, 400 wild peafowl, 400 wild guinea-fowl"-it was not the handbill of a bigger and better circus nor a page from Livy, but the proposed stock list of the Pacific Coast Sportsmen's Club, Inc., of Los Angeles. A fortnight ago, a director of that corporation declared it would fence off 50,000 Californian acres...