Word: beasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...corner, wearing a fancy ruby-colored robe with turban to match, was Arteen Ekizian, 30-year-old Turk, one time fish-peddler, U. S. sailor and Hollywood "extra." To 5,000 raucous spectators he was Ali Baba, the Terrible Turk of whom posters asked IS HE MAN OR BEAST? Ali Baba's head resembled a speckled ostrich egg. His upper lip was hidden behind a sweeping pair of handle bar mustachios. His teeth were jagged and irregular. His short legs which sup ported his 205 Ib. wabbled like...
...least one occasion the tip of a unicorn horn was administered to a dying Pope (TIME, Feb. 25, 1935). Unicorns are described in legends far back into the mists of antiquity. Many men boasted of having seen the creature. All agreed that he was a proud and mighty beast, too wise and fleet to let himself be caught, and that a single fine sharp horn grew from his forehead. In the Middle Ages it was believed that if a unicorn saw a virgin he would approach gently, lay his head...
Pathologists estimate that there are 742 organisms responsible for the diseases which afflict man & beast. Of the diseases which men are known to contract, 123 are due to bacteria (e. g., diphtheria), 95 to worms (e. g., trichinosis), 81 to fungi (e. g., athlete's' foot), 71 to insects (e. g., scabies), 56 to protozoa (e. g., malaria), 13 to spirochetes (e. g., syphilis) and five to Rickettsia (e. g., rocky mountain spotted fever). Affiliated with these nefarious swarms are 25 scarcely identifiable "inclusion bodies" or Chlamydozoa which cause a bracket of diseases including smallpox, rabies, parrot fever...
Dolores Costello modeled for James Montgomery Flagg at 16, did a turn in George White's Scandals at 19, was screen-tested, hired by Warner Bros. At 21, she was already a star in her own right when she played, in The Sea Beast with John Barrymore. After one more picture together. When a Man Loves, they were married. Dolores went to live in the Barrymore mansion, Bella Vista, on a bleak crest over Beverly Hills, taking her place among the Barrymore trophies of field & stream, the Barrymore whimsicalities and the Barrymore dinosaur egg obtained from Roy Chapman Andrews...
...read with interest your account of the Contentedest Cow. I never realized before what a prize the milk from contented cows actually is If one were to operate the beast which you describe as a miniature dairy for one year the results would be approximately as follows. Assuming local conditions it would cost about $801 to feed her and pay 4% interest on the initial investment. In as much as this does not include labor of tending, taxes, etc. and the receipts obtained from the sale of her produce are only $469 it is perhaps as well to have...