Word: tamed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Princeton, beaten by Brown last year and the year before, was beaten by Brown again last week, 19 to 7. Of the Big Three, only Harvard, against comparatively feeble opposition from New Hampshire, won a tame victory...
...Frankie and Johnnie" and the nostalgic flavor of bar and brothel scenes made Diamond Lil a Broadway hit. In The Constant Sinner, which Mae West wrote from her own novel, the bars and brothels are Harlem, 1931, and Mae West does not sing. But The Constant Sinner is no tame play, nor is it a dull play. Though handicapped by a more effete period, Mae West in some of her lines attains the lush bawdiness of her earlier production: "That dame [Cleopatra] went in for everything . . . she even went to bed with snakes." "I never turn anything down...
...scientific" articles, favorites of all Sunday editors, were somewhat less imaginative. Features of the first issue: a description of the aborigines of Australia & New Zealand; the child temple-dancers of Bali; Ras Tafari's monogamy; a big-game hunting article, suggesting that African lions are really tame; a summary of now familiar facts about Siam's royalty. The American Weekly of the same date offered: "If the Earth Becomes Uninhabitable-Where Shall We Go?," with brilliant illustrations; "Mystery of American Lady Curzon's Vanished Millions." "Still Another 'Betty Coed' Tragedy"; 'Judas the Hero...
According to the Times-Call, the 7½ Ib. rainbow trout caught by Publisher Fred G. Bonfils of the Denver Post and glorified in that exaggerating sheet, was a tame trout named Elmer "known to hundreds of visitors to the Miller preserve, from whom he would accept remnants of lunch, coming half out of the water to eat out of their hands. A friendly and sociable trout was Elmer and he did tricks for the tourists including a watery rendition of 'Sweet Adeline' when his crumbs were soaked in the drippings of the picnic flask...
...boom days of 1910-1912. The ostrich reaches his prime in three years. During his period of immaturity he is delicate, must be kept out of the rain. The mature bird likes alfalfa, builds large nests. Every nine months its feathers are clipped, a process which the tame bird learns to relish. Wing feathers from a male are ivory-white, known as Whites, or spotted, known as Byocks; the drabbish wing feathers from his mate are known as Feminas and Greys. Tail feathers are Boos. A prime bird will yield about 20 oz. of feathers at each clipping. When...