Word: tigers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just back of Britain's monster naval base at Singapore lies the pleasant realm of the wealthy, virile, tiger-hunting Sultan of Johore who, as an Oriental potentate, is entitled to have at least one attractive British woman staying at his palace on approval. His Highness, while making a round-the-world tour in 1934, was photographed in Hollywood with Mae West, and was the guest in Washington of Mr. & Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Last week, the Sultan again was news because, when he recently returned to Johore from a holiday in Sumatra, he had with him and seemed...
...presumed to mean "fur and feathers." For authentic fur-&-feather footage, Cinemad-venturer Clyde Elliott (Bring 'Em Back Alive) toted his cameras to Northern Malaya. Paramount sheared away most of what he brought back, brushed up a Booloo of its own, a crude hocus-pocus about a white tiger, worshiped by Sakai tribesmen and kept in good fur on a diet of maidens...
...Cartoonist Carey Orr of Chicago Trib une Syndicate published the fourth of a series of cartoons obviously modeled on the vicious tiger drawings with which the late great Cartoonist Thomas Nast once drove Tammany out of office. The Orr creation: a black panther labeled "New Dealism." A none too brilliant imitation, the black panther wore a collar variously labeled "Communism," "Hungry for Power," "Radicals," "Tyranny...
...National Leaguers, who scored a run in the very first inning, continued to humble the highly favored Americans, who had beaten them every year except 1936 and had jocularly referred to them as "minor leaguers." Even when the Americans finally succeeded in getting the bases loaded in the seventh, Tiger Rudy York, homerun specialist, proceeded to strike out. In fact, the American Leaguers, at the last possible moment, just escaped the stigma of being the only team ever to be shut out in an All-Star game. Score...
...balked a new Harvard-Princeton agreement to start football practice the fourth Friday before the first big game instead of September 15, the date determined by the 1923 Big Three pact, it was announced over the weekend. Since October 1 falls on a Saturday this year, the Crimson and Tiger gridmen will have a five-day practice advantage over the Elis...