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Word: tamers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bellboy Banquet Honors President Lowell's Birthday | 12/14/1939 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BAKER IS AIDE-DE-CAMP FOR GENERAL OF FOREIGN LEGION | 12/1/1939 | See Source »

After receiving more advice from Lion-tamer Clyde Beatty, Lieut. Burke asked a nearby rifle range to lend him its No. 1 marksman, a marine sergeant named Michael Peskin. Few minutes later Marksman Peskin and six guardsmen armed with submachine guns and 30-calibre rifles piled into a picket boat, shoved off for the Amazone, hove to southeast of Cape May, and their first lion hunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Lion Hunt | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...Negroes are generally credited with two great contributions to U. S. folk music: 1) spirituals, 2) the musical dialect of jazz. Why these two contributions should be so different has long puzzled high & lowbrows. One obvious reason: spirituals are sacred and solemn, hence naturally slower and tamer than jazz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Spirituals to Swing | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

...with an eye for publicity introduced to its patrons last week a zebra (see cut) with a hangdog expression, accompanied by Frank ("Bring 'Em Back Alive") Buck. To the great delight of photographers, the zebra, after posing wearily for its picture, shook itself from head to foot, tripped Tamer Buck, sent him sprawling to his knees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Capers | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

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