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Word: elephantic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scene: Cleveland. No deer but any tame elephant would have felt at home that day in Cleveland's auditorium. The audience chattering, the band playing, the smell of fresh pine lumber, were mindful of a circus. Over the delegates, like a cumulus cloud, hung a battery of loudspeakers shrouded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: The Elephant Show | 6/22/1936 | See Source »

Judges at the recent piano tournament were impressed by the facility with which she played Mozart's Minuet in G, the imagination shown in her original pieces. Best was a Nigerian Dance which she wrote when a Nigerian friend sent her a mahogany elephant. Others were: Rolling Home on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Harlem Prodigy | 6/22/1936 | See Source »

Euclid Avenue was filled with old familiar faces, some of whom Cleveland had not seen since 1924 when her new Public Hall needed no WPA renovation and Calvin Coolidge was nominated. C. Bascom Slemp from Virginia, David A. Reed from Pennsylvania, Ralph E. Williams from Oregon, Walter F. Brown from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Before the Flood | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

This Way to the Big Show is as far from the confessional type of memoirs as Tom Thumb from Jumbo the elephant. Fellows' life has been a three-ring circus, and he presents it in those terms. He ballyhoos himself as "a genie of journalistic paste jars, a fantastic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sesquipedalian | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

Some publicity stunts that Pressagent Fellows tells about: sending an elephant to lay a wreath on a dead elephant's monument; staging the real wedding of a clown in Madison Square Garden; putting up a gorilla at Manhattan's McAlpin Hotel. One stunt he denies any connection with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sesquipedalian | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

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