Word: tamer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Moments: A lion mangling a native lute player; a lion tamer going mad with fear when lions, loose and hungry, besiege him and his shipmates in a cave. A moment not composed by Creelman occurred when Tarzan, 3-year-old trained Nubian lion, was startled by the whir of motors in a hidden camera box while Bickford was lying on the ground in front of him. The beast sank its teeth in the actor's neck, shook him, dropped him, leaped on his prostrate body, stood there until scared off. Nine days later Bickford, with his bandages disguised...
...business college he showed promise of making an excellent clerk. In 1917 he enlisted as a private in the U. S. ambulance service, rose to sergeant, transferred to the air service as a balloon observer, came out a first lieutenant. After the War Roscoe Turner became a lion-tamer in a circus, later a barnstorming j stunt pilot, wing-walker and parachute-jumper. He toured the country advertising Curlee Clothing Co. of St. Louis and, in 1924, married a dark-haired, pretty Corinth girl named Carline Stovall...
...There was-and there is-about as much cooperation between the Federal Trade Commission and industry as there is between a lion-tamer with a blacksnake whip, a revolver and a strong-backed chair standing in a cage with six jungle cats snapping and snarling on six star-spangled hassocks-that is their version of economic planning. . . . Yet that is the condition these economic genii want to restore. . . . These men have really nothing to support them but the width of their mouths and the volumetric capacity of their lung power. . . . The fact is that they do not know what they...
...their honor. Photographers and reporters flocked to the asylum. Was there anything they particularly wanted done? Yes. said the boys. Just make sure Babe Ruth heard about them. Following Saturday, Passaic's small heroes met some of their big heroes at the circus in Manhattan. Clyde Beatty. tamer of lions and tigers, shook their hands and gave autographs. Hugo Zacchini, the human cannonball, greeted them. Gene Tunney came over to say hello. Max Schmeling invited them to his training camp at Oak Ridge, N. J. Babe Ruth, who sent each boy a telegram, will have them...
...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...