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Word: elephantic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Achilles Had a Heel (by Martin Flavin: Walter Hampden, producer) is a distressing piece of mumbo-jumbo showing Tragedian Hampden as a Negro elephant-keeper in a zoo. Mr. Hampden and the invisible elephant love each other for being big. strong, noble. When a high-yellow wench, urged on by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 21, 1935 | 10/21/1935 | See Source »

Ever since the rejuvenated donkey kicked the G.O.P. white elephant back to the sunny fields of California, Republican leaders have been sitting in their overstuffed chairs taking pot shots at the administration. Their criticism has run the gamut from intelligent analysis of Roosevelt's budgetary policy to the point of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PINK ELEPHANTS | 10/18/1935 | See Source »

Chang is an elephant of highly temperamental disposition peculiarly sensitive to external impressions. It seems that Chang strolled from his dwelling into his front yard the other morning and found a janitor a worthy but depressed citizen by the name of Abc Abraham busily engaged in putting a coat of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHANG AND W. P. A. | 10/16/1935 | See Source »

The red paint attracted Chang's attention. He lumbered over, poked his trunk through the bars and with a determined swipe, cleaned off the surface first covered. So it went with the elephant removing the paint as fast as Mr.Abraham applied it and when the noon hour arrived the score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHANG AND W. P. A. | 10/16/1935 | See Source »

Another amusing picture is a water color portraying the religious rite of washing a white elephant. The animal is way out of proportion, and two attendants can be seen standing between its ears, scrub-brushes in hand.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 10/9/1935 | See Source »

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