Word: tente
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...face his gun. He choked a leopard to death. Once he took a leopard cub home and raised it as a pet. When the leopard grew up he took it with him on hunting trips. It would follow him like a Scottie. One night he woke up in his tent with a leopard breathing on his face, getting ready to spring. Charlie Cottar felt for his rhinoceros whip, jumped to his feet, whipped the leopard out of the tent and into the jungle. Walking back to his tent, feeling bad about the way his pet had turned out, he felt...
...Congress, the little man who wasn't there is white-haired, droopy-eyed Christopher D. Sullivan. He wasn't there again last week. The 70-year-old leader of Tammany Hall had folded his tent after 24 years as Representative of New York's Thirteenth Congressional District, left the Capital as quietly as he entered it in 1917. He was gone for days before he was missed...
Mexicans like their movies, but not until the last three years have they been able to make what they like for themselves. In the silent days, audiences crowded into tent theatres, sat ankle-deep in dust watching the leaps of Douglas Fairbanks, the tears of Barbara La Marr. They took it all very seriously, bombarding the villain on the screen with fruit and dirt. Occasionally an old. leathery Villista Dorado (Pancho Villa bodyguard) would come down from the mountains for a show, angrily pepper the screen with his six-shooter to save the heroine from the buzz...
...interest this winter on its bonds. Some Katy bondholders have received nothing since 1937; its preferred stockholders since 1931 ; its common shareholders since 1930. Usually an oil-and-granger road, hit hard by the decline in crop exports. Katy recently hauled 320 carloads of lumber, seven carloads of wooden tent poles, 15 carloads of Army rubbers, 181 carloads of mattresses to Fort Sam Houston and elsewhere...
...nothing newfangled would be done with clowns, elephants, acrobats. He gave a few hints as to his intentions. Next year, he said, the menagerie would not be displayed in their usual cage wagons, but in scenes resembling the animals' native habitats. Eventually the big top, with its many tent poles, would be replaced by a poleless canvas hung from 160-foot portable steel towers...