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...bottom-usually wait for hours. . . . In the garden of a Nassau hotel there used to be the jaws of a hammerhead shark, with a placard: "Abandon hope all ye who enter here." A more appropriate exhibit would have been the jaws of a large barracuda (sphyraena barracuda), sharp-fanged "tiger fish" of West Indian waters. Long, silvery, black-barred, barracudas haunt the shallows boldly by day, are far more ferocious and aggressive than sand sharks...
...seemed to have an excellent chance of reaching an age where- U. S. immigration policy permitting-he might cause U. S. headlines: "Kid Confucius, Freshman, Comes to Old Penn" or, since many an able Chinaman has played on a U. S. college team, "Duke Boots Hot One to Trounce Tiger Soccerites...
...Ladies and gentlemen! I have said, and still maintain, that essentially, when considered objectively, the Jew is an excellent individual. But is not the rose-beetle with its iridescent wings essentially also an excellent creature? ... Is not the tiger . . . and do we not hunt...
...little Irishman (Mickey Walker, onetime welterweight champion) knocked a nice black man (Tiger Flowers) down on his haunches with a smack on the jaw. Up jumped Flowers and began to lace the countenance and torso of Walker with a long left hand in the manner of a man painting a fence. Blood squirted from a gash over Walker's eye. In the ninth round he knocked Flowers down again but the black man, with a grin of ebony, bounced from the canvas and hacked at Walker's snout. The gong ended the tenth. The crowd in the Chicago...
...brothers should drop in. Art Collector John and the late Charles have also shown financial genius, many times doubling by investment their income. Charles was the most picturesque of all, a sentimentalist. Said he: "I go out to the 'menagerie,' and look my monkeys and tigers and lions in the face. It is there I see my measure. . . . When a tiger snarls at me ... I look him in the face. . . .What have I done that I shouldn...