Word: tigress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pessek was an orang-outang who closed her shutters when visitors bored her, who politely returned Author Eipper the peels and pips of a gift-orange. Mr. Eipper next looked at the pale faery eyes of a Bengal tigress, fixed on distance like those of some Eastern image. He watched the pelican gulp fish. He sat down and let four orang-outang infants clamber over him and played with them as an equal. From the rear he looked at the young elephants- "like forlorn village children in the Sunday pants of a corpulent parent." Only the chimpanzees disturbed him. Said...
Forgotten Faces. She is sitting at a piano, playing idly. Suddenly, she stops; curls her fingers, tigress-like. There is a man standing near her. She seizes him, pulls him down on her lap, bites the back of his neck, twists a handful of his hair. Then she stands up, arches her spine, leads the man into a bedroom...
Near Tashkent, Russian Turkestan, a tigress, famished, sneaked into a farmhouse, devoured two peasants...
...Tigress...
...Angeles, Trainer Louis Roth cracked his whip over a tigress making her circus debut, was flattened on the tanbark by a snarling catapult. Nimble, he regained his feet and with face, head, arms, shoulders spurting blood, lashed the cat into submission...