Word: leopardize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...characters, the stream is diverted until the story of each character is told. Though some characters do their womanly best to quiet the stream, the modernistic hero always breaks it into ripples, rapids, finally a plunging waterfall. Pierre Radier is the love child of Madame Azai's, a leopard-trainer traveling with a circus in the Middle West. Of his father, Moise, a Dusseldorf banker, Pierre knows nothing but what his mother tells him, but the restless ambition in his blood testifies that he is a chip off the old block. Though he is an accomplished performer under...
...Leonids--artistic dancers, species of leopard in Central Asia, members of a Swedish youth cult, meteors...
...Next is a picture of a map, with Fairbanks running across Asia and making a big jump to get to the Philippines. In Siam he has lunch with King Prajadhipok, laughs at the picture of himself perspiring in a stiff collar. In India he examines a snake, shoots a leopard, expresses conventional approbation of the Taj Mahal by moonlight. The commentary is gay, sometimes painfully so. When elephants lollop in a river, Fairbanks says: "They wear nothing but their trunks." Commenting on a Japanese prizefight, he imitates a radio announcer, ends with, "Graham McNamee announcing." There is no pun about...
...Ethiopian region of central Africa. Figures of beasts of Indo-Asiatic and Holactic habitat are carved on the walls of the long wing in two balanced groups. The central carving in the Holactic group is placed in the same relative position as that occupied by the Indo-Asiatic leopard in the other group. The short wing will be incised with figures of neotropical mammals. The remainder of the space available for carving will be used to represent the principal animals to be found in Australia...
Among the nine heads mounted for wall display are five specimens of Impalla, Topi, and Waterbuck. A lion and a leopard skin rug will be hung in each side reading room, where the other heads will also be placed. They are now on display in the main reading room of the Harvard Union...