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...Gentlemen," said Hunter Wright as he opened the cage on the island, brandishing a chair and a pistol like famed Lion-tamer Clyde Beatty, but with his friends training rifles on the beasts, "this is the biggest moment of my life." The lions stood up, yawned, slunk out. Seven hounds cowered and whined. Off into the thick willows wandered the lions. Hunter Wright, gleeful, promised them a four-hour start, suggested lunch. At this point he found Newshawk Chesley busily taking photographs. Newshawk Goldstein complaining about the loss of his plates, threatening to break his rival's camera. "Please...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Scooped Lions | 10/31/1932 | See Source »

...think grimace was pasted on the lips of the knocker. They would have revenge. Two Victrolas were commandeered and set to playing on the door stoop--"Something To Remember Me By." Then a few fire crackers were shot off to give the thing a tinge of reality. The scoundrels slunk off to their rooms to study...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 5/26/1931 | See Source »

...well-placed torpedoes would have made the British liner Mauretania again the Atlantic's speed queen. But the sirens of the German ships hooted joyously at each other, and His Majesty's sub slunk peacefully below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Joyous Hoots | 3/31/1930 | See Source »

...saying: "I will not be taken for a lecherous old swine like Primo de Rivera." For any Spaniard would recognize the allusion to an occasion when the Chief of Police of Madrid personally conducted a raid on a celebrated bawdy house, thundered on the door, and then slunk away as the proprietor whispered through the chink, "I can't let you in, because Primo is already here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Blinding Flash | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

...took a joy ride in his employer's limousine, was spotted and chased by traffic cops. For five minutes he sped, the police shooting at him. Then he bumped a light in front of a gas station, caromed into an alley, demolished a tree. In the darkness he slunk home, where police found him huddled in a clothes closet, popeyed, a rabbit's foot in each hand. He had also swallowed his tongue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Ashman | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

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