Word: tigerish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...consist of the progressive consultations in the treatment of her case. And since the actress is indeed a pretty well tattered madonna, a certain amount of interest is attached to her explanations of the origins of her hates and loves. She is described as tall, supple, and of "almost tigerish strength." When we add that she speaks in a husky voice and uses tangerine perfume, any reader familiar with One-a-minute-Oppenheim can visualize the type. Her chief weakness seems to be that she is given to sudden uprushes of emotion around men, either pro or con, and, when...
...question was and is: who can be, who should be, acknowledged World's Champion to fill the niche whence James Joseph Tunney stepped into the Social Register? The hope was that Herr Schmeling, who is quite as genteel as Mr. Tunney but whose fighting face and style sharply recall tigerish onetime Champion Jack Dempsey, would prove himself eligible...
...waist; a single breast makes display enough. Trousers, it is needless to say, should be at least eighteen inches in diameter. Black frocks have been worn for some time of an afternoon. Their days are numbered. The Jews have got hold of them of late; they have become rather tigerish; and blue, reaching fully to the knee, are now considered fully as good form -- two or three bits of cockney slang, by the way, are worth half an hour of the choicest native profanity...
...Lithuania. From Warsaw straight to the Hotel des Bergues came, last week, Dictator Marshal Josef Pilsudski. His red and gold salon carriage* blazoning the white eagle of Poland had barely stopped at the Geneva station when French Consul General Ame LeRoy stepped aboard and gently took in tow the tigerish Marshal. Bystanders smiled when this arch-militarist appeared in a civilian suit and soft felt hat. They sobered, however, as his hand snapped automatically to return a salute and he stalked from the station with long, dynamic strides...
Beau Geste. At Marseille, lucky Deserter Doty was met by U. S. correspondents who had learned about the French Foreign Legion from the U.S. cinema Beau Geste (TIME, Sept. 6, 1926). They remembered the tigerish Legion officer, in that film who allots blows & curses to his men. Are such kicks typical of the Legion...