Word: lions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dear Sir: A lion hunt is planned for the destruction of huge beasts that are prowling the mountains of South Platte Ca४n. One huge creature has driven away all the other game from the forests, and is killing sheep, deer and pigs near the homes. Lives of children attending sheep are unsafe. Even the dogs whine and hide when they get his spoor. The sport of tracking and killing such game is worthy of any of the men of the Capital. . . . We would like to see you and your friends enjoy this truly royal sport. . . . The cold wave...
...presents Macbeth, now in Manhattan, seemingly, with all the might of the French Government behind him. He is like Foch at the Marne, standing immobile against the battering thrusts of fate. Apparently up to the climacteric point he has done nothing but shake his head like a lazy, shaggy lion, tossing the blows from him. And then like Foch he charges and turns the tide completely...
...filming of Quo Vadis, a cinema lioness became "highly excited," jumped over the barrier, landed upon an aged "super," mauled him ferociously. The super died. Young Gabrielino d'Annunzio, son of Italy's famed soldier-poet, who was one of three directing the filming, had no lion license, was sought by the carabinieri...
Rudofsky again took the lion's share of the Crimson's honors, with Smith an able second. For Yale, the steadiness of Captain Haas stood out. Harvard lost the game primarily from the foul-line making the miserable showing of one score in 11 attempts by this method...
...other speakers of note followed Bishop Manning, including George W. Wickersham, quondam U. S. Attorney General. It was noticed that there were gathered into this one fold, the Fundamentalists and Modernists. The Conservative and Liberal Christians of the Church of the Lord, were peaceful as lambs, having shed their lion's raiment. In connection with the finishing of the Cathedral a drive for $15,000,000 was started by a national committee, of which Franklin D. Roosevelt is the acting head. Money will not be spent while building prices are at their present sky-high level. In any case...