Word: panther
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...principal role in this garish adaptation of H. G. Wells's Island of Doctor Moreau had been entrusted to some one else, it might very well have emerged as a routine nightmare, notable mainly for the presence of Paramount's highly publicized but not particularly bestial "panther woman" (Kathleen Burke). Miss Burke, a Chicago dentist's assistant whose pointed face, sloping eyes, fuzzy hair and graceful physique won her the part against 60,000 other girls who entered Paramount's contest for it last summer, pads about the island with the dubious manner natural...
Professor Taussig has never been conspicuous for his head-long boldness or panther-like jumping at conclusions and his usual caution has not deserted him in "American Business Leaders." In contradiction to journalistic style, he opens each chapter with a series of explanations, reservations, and qualifications; gingerly indicating toward the end a few acceptable conclusions. This unnecessary humility on Professor Taussig's part is the reviewer's only object of criticism...
Quick as a panther, Dr. Dan's chauffeur sprang on the youth, wrenched the pistol from his hand before he could fire a second shot. But crumpled on the pavement in front...
Cinemactor Douglas Fairbanks, big-game hunting in India (TIME, Jan. 12; March 2), sent a runner to Calcutta with the news that he had shot three leopards, a tiger and, while riding elephant-back, a panther...
...that he has no interest in U. S. art, or Swiss art or British art, that he paints what he sees to the best of his ability and lets it go at that. As soon as possible he escaped from human society, spent hours in front of the black panther's cage in the Bronx Zoo. Last week before the Pittsburgh Show opened he was aboard ship, on his way back to Paris. Reporters might have fared better with First Prizeman Picasso. Friend of Matisse, but never a member of his early group of insurgents, Les Fauves (The Wild...