Word: tigers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Regardless of man-eating sharks which infest their waters, robust Australians cockily make sea-swimming their favorite sport. Since a shark digests an Australian in a few days, it was major Commonwealth news when a huge tiger shark, thrashing around under the eyes of fascinated bathers in an aquarium near Coogee Beach, suddenly spewed up the contents of its stomach including an undigested human arm tattooed with two boxers wearing red shorts...
...Houston marched into Washington with a big sombrero on his head, an Indian blanket over his shoulders and a tiger-skin vest around his middle, sat in the Senate for 13 years whittling at a stack of wood. But he was a gallant, handsome man, with the Indian's poise and dignity, and even Virginia ladies loved him, until he began to talk against secession. Back in Texas as Governor, he lost his office when he refused to swear allegiance to the Confederate Government. The whole South drummed "the hoary-haired traitor" to his grave...
Slight, handsome Dave Merwin, 35, was something of a wild man, a jolly drinker, an able cartoonist, at Harvard. After college and a round-the-world trip, with tiger-hunting in Indo-China, he quieted down, succeeded his ailing uncle as publisher of the Pantagraph. A licensed transport pilot, he flies about in his orange-colored airplane called Scoop, loves to whisk his small son & daughter 100 miles or so for an ice cream soda. To the Cowles team. Publisher Merwin takes financial wizardry and a profound knowledge of all newspaper mechanical operations which both brothers lack...
Died. Mrs. Alice Brown Davis, 82, chieftain of the Seminole Indian nation; of heart disease; in Wewoka, Okla. Daughter of a Scottish physician and a Seminole princess of the Tiger clan. Mrs. Davis was appointed chief of the Seminoles by President Harding in 1922 to succeed her brother, the late Governor John F. Brown Jr. of Oklahoma...
...Lincoln can follow the example set last year by Captain Eddie Loughlin in setting down the Elis 3-2, Harvard will cinch second place in Eastern competition regardless of how the Bulldog and Tiger make out against each other tomorrow...