Word: paw
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Have you ever shot a lion with a bandaged paw...
...Usborne suggested the mysterious question to London's Spectator as a topic for its Competition, a resolutely droll contest in which readers submit humorous essays and verse on set subjects. Spectator readers sailed off on a sea of whimsey, concocting hypotheses. One suggested that the beast cut its paw on a Coca-Cola bottle, another thought the lion was a character actor from a traveling troupe of Shaw's Androcles and the Lion...
...Africa, who had read the Spectator contest and identified himself as the man who had spoken the sentence in the King David bar. His story: while he was stationed in an army camp near Nairobi, soldiers had made pets of two lion cubs. "One of the brutes cut his paw on a piece of rusty metal," wrote Braithwaite. "This did not, naturally, improve his temper, and he nearly mauled the camp chaplain. After that he (the lion, not the chaplain) had to be destroyed . . . His paw was still sore, and still wrapped in bandages . . . when I killed...
...ambled through the waiting crowd of juniors, listening to the nervous laughter and the distracted small talk, watching the Elis eat their nails and paw the grass...
Leverett has its own Spring weekend coming up: derbies on the Charles. Its Civic Improvement Society chisels fossils from the showers and surveys the House's trapeziform dining hall. On the bulletin boards, blatant posters describe sports victories as "Pookahs Paw Listless Lowell...