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...Lion's Roar. Then it happened. Prince, the tiger, got nervous, began whipping his tail. It flicked against Tyrone and the big lion turned, rose, roared and lashed out with his paw. The tiger snarled, lashed back, lost his balance and fell. Tyrone was on him like a load of coal. The second tiger jumped Tyrone. Then every lion in the cage came down. In 15 seconds the air was trembling with the kind of noise you hear when a bomber's engines are run up full. Big cats crouched, sprang, rolled, roared all over the ground...
...Baker's book is a gold mine of hints to the legless (of whom there are some 128,000 in the U.S.). Samples: 1) watch out for dogs-they are liable to get a paw caught in your crutch; 2) the most efficient and attractive crutch position is dead vertical; 3) a legless person can always make a sucker of a carnival weight guesser; 4) a good way to relieve the boredom of answering nosybodies who want to know how it happened is to tell whoppers (a favorite Baker whopper: her leg got frozen stiff in skiing...
...Manhattan's Second Avenue, was farmed out by his widowed mother to a German baker named Gus Schmall. He went to school for a while, ran off to sea, grew up and began having a chronic dream. In the dream Little Joe -now Big Joe-waved his hairy paw, whereupon the great ports of New York, Boston, Marseilles, San Francisco, Antwerp were paralyzed. All over the world shipping was paralyzed. Then the President of the U.S. called Joe and said: "Joe, you have paralyzed the world by a wave of your hand. What do you want?" Said...
...Prime Minister was quite happy with Pat II; he explained that he was a military dog. "Salute," called the Prime Minister, and the dog stuck forward his paw. "Get into the trenches," and Pat flopped on his belly. "Find the enemy," and Pat retrieved a cookie from a chair. The Prime Minister looked pleased...
...Edward B. Marks, 80, publisher (Edward B. Marks Music Corp.) of some 20,000 songs including barbershop favorites and the urbane ballads of Jerome Kern, Sigmund Romberg, Rodgers & Hart: of pneumonia; in Mineola, L.I. While song-plugging in Manhattan saloons during the gaslit '90s, he saw a customer paw a tearful waitress, whipped out a pencil, wrote straight from life My Mother Was a Lady...