Resorts advertised for waitresses, specifying that they "must appear in short clothes or no engagement." Below a Gospel Guide colu...mn headed, "Where our Local Divines Will Hang Out Tomorrow," was an account of spirited gun play at the Bon Ton. In Jeff Winney's California Concert Hall, patrons "bucked the tiger" under the watchful eye of Kitty Crawhurst, popular "lady" gambler.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The way of Providence is a little rude. The habit of the snake and spider, the snap of the tiger and other leapers and bloody jump...ers, the crackle of the bones of his prey in the coil of the anaconda,--these are in the system, and our habits like theirs. You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughter-house is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity, expensive races,--race living at the expense of race.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There was a young lady of Niger Who smiled as she rode on a Tiger;... They came back from the ride With the lady inside, And the smile on the face of the Tiger.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead!... In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility. But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger: Stiffen the sinews, conjure up the blood, Disguise fair nature with hard-favored rage. Then lend the eye a terrible aspect: Let it pry through the portage of the head Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean. Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, Hold hard the breath, and bend up every spirit To his full height.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Heavily hangs the broad sunflower Over its grave i' the earth so chilly;... Heavily hangs the hollyhock, Heavily hangs the tiger-lily.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »