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First impression was to wonder why anyone so flagrantly sexy as her Carmen should trouble to work for a living in a cigaret factory. She sang the Habanera belligerently, as if defying the world. She turned on bewildered Don Jose like a tigress, sidled up to the captain of the guards like an oldtime cinema vamp. The stage scarcely seemed to hold her. Ponselle's voice is naturally sumptuous, but she was too busy ranting to do justice by Bizet's music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Carmen | 1/6/1936 | See Source »

...most ignorant of Freshmen know, the squirrels that have inhabited the Yard from time immemorial belong to the species known as Sciurus Carolinensis, variety Aptedii. They are large grey beasts, gentle as kittens except when roused, when they display the fury of the tigress defending her lair, and each year they form fast friends among the Freshman class whom they will remember for years, running to them in childish glee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Buckshot Replaces Birth-Control In Yard Squirrel-Defense Tactics | 9/25/1934 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wild Life | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Aug. 20, 1928 | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

Near Tashkent, Russian Turkestan, a tigress, famished, sneaked into a farmhouse, devoured two peasants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Fat Tuesday | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

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