Word: elephantic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After many small groups had met for "quiet times," some 400 Groupers and friends congregated in Newport's Casino Theatre. There they viewed the First Century Christian Fellowship cinema Bridge Builders, later enjoyed a buffet supper, beamed, chatted in the ballroom of the Casino. Practically all were oldsters. The...
Planning to outdo the elephant show at Cleveland where vanquished rivals joined in seconding Nominee Landon, Showman Farley had arranged for every state to second Roosevelt's renomination. That meant 48 speeches plus nine more from non-voting areas. It meant more than eight hours of fervid oratory in...
When his bull elephant grows restless, begins to ooze oily liquid from the porous spot in its forehead, the mahout in the teakwood forests of Upper Burma chains his big beast of burden securely, leaves it strictly alone until the condition is past. This periodic frenzy, probably sexual, is called...
In the pool inside the big, concrete-barred elephant paddock he splashed and whooshed for two hours one hot morning last week, part of the time with one of the cows. Then Keeper Ed Brown decided to part them, take Wally to a small separate paddock. He asked Keeper Rudolph...
The cow elephants began to squeal and stamp. Throughout the zoo rose a jungle din of roars, howls, screams, snarls. Rudolph Bjork and another keeper seized an iron rod and an elephant hook, began beating and prodding at the maddened beast through the paddock bars. His little eyes bloodred, Wally...