Word: snarl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Also present in the Moose financial snarl was an item of $125,000 which the Supreme Lodge had voted Moose Davis last year and which he had inexplicably turned over to the department which he had relinquished. The Court wanted to know why. "Your Honor," replied Moose Jenkins, "that's one of the extraordinary things he has done. He does things different from what you and I would do and that's why he is an extraordinary...
...Appointed Governor of Shantung Province in September 1930, lithe, redoubtable War Lord Han Fu-chu has slashed through the snarl of official extortion which had made Shantung the worst governed province in China. Today Shantung is called China's best-governed province. Han stands for no nonsense. In his capital, Tsinan (see map), there is snap, discipline, morale. When the War Lord stalks with swift strides about his headquarters, ceaselessly puffing cigarets and ripping out orders in short-chopped Chinese, things get done...
Meanwhile distemper broke out among the widow's cats. Four died, leaving 36 tomcats to snarl, spit, scream and wail from the Dornsife's domicile at night...
...southern sky. The Yawalapiti children ceased playing. The adults stopped working and talking. The droning thing became visible very high up in the sky. It looked like a dragon fly. But it was bigger than a condor. The amazed Yawalapiti watched it circle down upon their village with a snarl louder than the snarl of any jaguar that ever lived...
...Ohio, "THE FEARLESS & YOUTHFUL TRAINER DEMONSTRATING MAN'S POWER OVER FEROCIOUS BEASTS OF THE JUNGLE." While lurid red lights play on a circular cage in the centre ring. Trainer Beatty, armed with whip, chair and blank-loaded revolver, assembles some 40 lions & tigers, puts them through paces. The beasts snarl, hiss, roar, paw each other and Mr. Beatty, but nobody is hurt. The lions & tigers are frequently stubborn, which gives Mr. Beatty an opportunity to demonstrate his undeniable courage. Sometimes one will leap at him; then his revolver makes lightning in the dim cage and the beast receives a whiplash...