Word: tamers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Never a Tamer. Near misses kept audience adrenalin pumping too. Several times when the circus lights failed, Beatty had to grope his way to safety from a cage full of roaring animals. Once in Cleveland, three of his "kitties" broke loose, terrified the crowd for long, anxious minutes before Beatty finally maneuvered them back into cages. The tensions of such a life forced him to get a nightly ten hours of sleep, sweated a pound off him at every 18-minute performance, and earned him wildly varying sums of money. The Ringling Brothers Circus was paying him only...
...replied. "You know that whenever you go on those wild rides you wet your pants and embarrass me." "Honestly," she pleaded. "I won't this time. I'll take care." At length the swain consented and the pair enjoyed a pleasant time on a number of the tamer riders. Then the girl urged that they try the terrifying loop-de-loop, the fastest swirling ride in the park. With some trepidation, her date agreed. After several breathtaking circular ascents their car was stopped at the uppermost point. Sure enough, an embarrassing dribble of water fell from their compartment...
...Lion Tamer...
...heroine of Robert Gover's One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding wa Kitten, a 14-year-old Negro prostitute with sharp claws, bite and goofy charm In this inevitable sequel, Kitten is a much tamer puss. Taking her-and himself-too seriously, Author Gover hai decided to preach as well as to profit Readers will be forgiven if they decide by page 75 that it has all been a $3.95 misunderstanding...
Margaret Laurence is a 37-year-old Canadian whose publishers have taken the "unusual gamble" of bringing out three of her books on the same day. The Stone Angel, her second novel, is accompanied by a first collection of short stories, The Tomorrow-Tamer, and a travel book, New Wind in a Dry-Land. Although she does not live up to her publishers' extravagant billing, she demonstrates in The Stone Angel that she has a true novelist's gift for catching a character in mid-passion and life at full flood. The character is Hagar Shipley, who mixes...