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The research helped him debunk myths of the near-useless male lion that seldom hunts and of the female as the consummate mother.

As of Sunday, the details of a deal are ironed out, leaving it up to the leaders to consummate the transaction, he said.

In an age when every middle-class household could afford a few hearth gods, the superior collector consummated his passion for beauty against the “prevailing winds of progress, fashion, democracy, money, and modernity.”

Enemy fire has left him unable to consummate his love for Lady Brett Ashley, a former nurse who has turned herself over to a madcap Paris existence.

If the universal acclaim of “Oklahoma!” will force Hart to confront his professional irrelevance, maybe Elizabeth’s beaming presence — and the promise of them consummating their feelings — will be sufficient compensation.