Word: lions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...August Hubbard went on a lion and elephant hunt but came back with an empty bag. One story states that the 200 pound ex-captain spent one night in a tree waiting for lions, but when two came at once, he became excited and his shots went wild, leaving him standed at the top of the tree until daybreak when the two creatures condescendingly retired from the foot of the tree and allowed him a chance to get back to his camp...
...Gaston B. Means, and a host of jackals who followed in their trail?" At Milwaukee, Charles G. Dawes went to the lair of LaFollettism to attack, not 'because the Republicans hope for success there, but rather because of the compelling interest which comes to those who attack the lion in his den. He declared that the LaFollette plank, which would permit Congress to override a decision...
...Female. Africa is the setting. A fierce girl supposed to have been nursed by lions, the heroine. A murder of her Boer husband, the climax. A handsome English lion-hunter, the anticlimax. Betty Compson is the female supposed to be so deadly...
...handsome English lion-hunter...
...itself taxing for a young and literary Englishman- a Beau Brummel in khaki pants and red shirt, exiled from home because of ill-health. There were compensating novelties. For instance, on the night of his arrival he lay shivering through the white hours in a disused woodshed while a lion drank from a reservoir outside his door; later, he put down a native riot, shot a hippopotamus, trapped a lion, was hoodooed by a witch-doctor, barely escaped being trampled by a herd of wild elephants...