Word: tamers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third act which I considered the high-point of the evening. Here the authoress did her impressions of four characters immortalized in the posters of Toulouse Lautree, "La Goulue," "A Lion Tamer," "Deaf Bertha," and the magnificent Yvette Gilbert. While these impressions lacked the humorous twists of the earlier ones, they seemed to be fuller, more human. The women here were dressed exactly as they appear in the famous posters, and it would be difficult if not impossible for the uninformed observer to tell that they were being played by the same person...
When Clinton Truman Duffy became warden back in 1940, nobody expected that the prison would really change-even though he got the job because of public revulsion at the prison's sadism and corruption. San Quentin seemed to need a lion tamer, and Duffy was a mild, grey-haired little man who favored gold-rimmed spectacles and always wore a rosebud in his lapel. He was appointed temporarily, for only 30 days, while the governor looked for a more impressive crusader...
...regions are selected from all over the U.S. Well on his way toward making the past as readable as the present, he tries to keep an even balance between things (Conestoga wagons, railroads, the American eagle), places and people (Garfield's assassin, Lincoln as a horse tamer), and events (Tippecanoe, the Bear Flag revolt). Newton, who is also a director of Massachusetts' famed Old Sturbridge Village (TIME, Nov. 5), puts out the magazine in his spare time with the help of only one paid hand. He wangles free manuscripts from members of the American Association for State...
...circus impresario's wife gets him his strangest task. Thanks to her, he signs on as a lion tamer, finds that his job is to lie down with a beefsteak on his chest and let a lion eat the steak. A dress rehearsal and one performance cool his ardor for the impresario's wife. It turns out that the impresario uses her as a regular decoy to line up human steak platters. Between catastrophes, H. Hatterr asks himself the perennial questions of philosophy, some piffling, some reaching toward profundity: "Why is an evening paper published in the afternoon...
...termed Poe as a "real lion-tamer, he is only happy among real lions." Wilder discussed the degree of Poe's merit, his control, "which he did not always maintain," and his interest in the mind as the instrument of understanding...