Word: tamer
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...baying of frightened dogs than the discussion of reasonable men. And loud in the pack have been members of the Harvard Faculty. They have raved, and raged, and roared, as though the enemy were hammering at our very gates. If they seem now to be getting a little tamer it is not because they are more sensible, but rather because there is a limit to energy even of the hysterical type...
...they expected to see a doddering oldster, they were surprised. Old Steve Dutton is built like the village smith, bullnecked, his nearly-six-foot frame wrapped with 180 Ib. of muscle as tough as a lion-tamer's boot. He has never worn glasses. His hearing is acute. Neat in a black suit and powder-blue topcoat, clean shaven and impatient, he stomped out under the bright lights, roaring in a deep black bass. He raged at being held without bail, bawled out a stripling cop who dared touch his shoulder...
Married. Maria Rasputin Soloviev, 39, animal tamer, self-styled daughter of Russia's "Mad Monk"; Gregory Rasputin; and one Gregory Bernadsky, 39; in Miami...
...dinner was followed by a drama by John Fletcher (c.1611) entitled "The Woman's Prize, or, The Tamer Tamed," termed in the program as "a rough merry farce of a more boisterous...
Unable to get a commission in the famous colonial fighting organization, Baker declared that he has not yet given up hope of fighting on the side of the Allies, though for the time being he must be satisfied with something tamer than active service...