Word: sealed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Seal-training is no more spectacular or rapid than the training of any other wild animal," said John W. Tiebor, who with his brother Roland, has charge of the seals for the Barnum and Bailey, Ringling Brothers circus, now at the Boston Garden, in an interview yesterday afternoon just before his act was scheduled to appear...
...takes the same continual patience and coaching that all animal training requires, although I believe that seals are more intelligent than most of the dumb beasts. However, when we receive them they appear only too stupid and obstinate. Our seals come from the region around San Francisco, and are in a wild and untamed state when we got them. Two to six months, depending on the seal, are required to teach a seal to balance a ball on its nose and nearly two years to acquire the art of playing on the horns...
...Treasury seal, one of the three actuating signatures of the document, is illegible and canceled by the printed word FIVE...
...circus to Washington in 1928 Mr. Ringling called at the White House, casually mentioned to President Coolidge that he had a sea elephant in the show. Mr. Coolidge nodded his head, went to see for himself. He discovered that the sea elephant is just an overgrown species of seal (Mirunga leoninus or patagonica), carnivorous, mammalian, with a flexible proboscis, hind limbs so rudimentary that they look like a big tail; broad, flat for ward flippers for swimming and spanking the young. For Mr. Coolidge's pleasure Goliath I devoured 50 Ib. of herring. Six months later a shark got into...
...there remained some 1,000 wild animals including 40-odd elephants, twoscore lions & tigers, a pair of rhinoceroses, three giraffes (the fourth broke his neck looking at the scenery between Sarasota and New York), many a seal (the best known of which plays crazily on a horn), and a variegated assortment of porcupines, camels, cranes, storks, milgai, kangaroos, monkeys, baboons, dromedaries, tapirs, leopards, hippopotamuses, hyenas, bears, gnus, parrots & macaws, deer, pumas, an audad, a bok and a gemsbuck. There were many horses (735 by the program) and many a zebra. There were such subhuman animals as The Men from Mars...