Word: tame
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sunshine, a big Russian brown bear in Cleveland's Brookside Zoo, Keeper Thomas Earl had always spoken kindly. "He is docile, tame and well mannered," said he. One day last week Keeper Earl entered Sunshine's cage with a breakfast of raw meat, carrots, two loaves of bread. Sunshine was not in a good humor, did not retire to his pit for his meal. Keeper...
...roamed the Iberian peninsula, a closer cousin of the African Cape buffalo than of any domestic cattle. Spanish ganaderías (bull-raising establishments) raise their bulls in a wild state. Carefully bred to bring out all the courage of the strain, the best specimens are rigorously tested, the tame ones weeded out to be butchered. Those raised to fight are never allowed to come in contact with a man on foot lest they learn his tricks. They must remain virgin. The young ones and defectives are fought by novilleros (novices); full-grown bulls (over three years) are killed...
...aged professor who loves her well but bookishly. She tries her best to love him back, they are engaged; but a chance conversation with a married man shows her that it was Alf, for all his terrifying lovemaking, whom she really loved. Alf was too wild, Heloma is too tame: she takes up spinsterhood...
Since the first horse, scarcely larger than a fox, went scampering about in America in which were no humans to tame him, American horses have had their ups & downs. Automobiles brought them a down; Depression has given them an up. Wayne Dinsmore of Chicago, secretary and propagandist of the Horse Association of America, announced last week that the horse is once more the chief source of horsepower on Mid-western farms...
...lions, tigers, dwarfs, elephants and gorillas are better acquainted with their histrionic duties and can discharge them more effectively. Almost as effective as the animals is Tarzan Weissmuller. His ability as a swimmer has never led him into jungles. The wildest animal he ever knew hitherto was the comparatively tame and toothless alligator which used sometimes to be allowed to splash comically in the Roney-Plaza Hotel's luxurious swimming pool in Miami, where Weissmuller was swimming instructor. Nevertheless he acquits himself creditably. His spare frame is not too skinny for the role; he swims faster than Miss O'Sullivan...