Word: elephantic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Baboona (Martin Johnson). With the possible exception of Manhattan, no section of the world has been exploited for the cinema more thoroughly than Africa. Well aware that the Dark Continent's flora and fauna offered little novelty, Mr. & Mrs. Martin Johnson, who have spent the last decade taking pictures...
Britannia Waives the Rules is sympathetically introduced by emancipated Britisher D. B. Wyndham Lewis, who strikes the highest note in the book by quoting an anonymous Irish poet: " 'Every time I land at Dover I feel as if I were being softly butted behind by a brown woollen elephant...
The crowd which crowded the Dining Hall to overflowing registered emphatic approval of the tutors' antics as Falstaff's ragamuffin soldiers. An worldly horde they formed featuring Mess Potter and Bissell the former with great fur rug glued to his with a and the latter coyly holding chest depicting a...
First prize for costume went to five newswomen dressed as the Dionne quintuplets, with the Children's Bureau's new Chief Katharine Lenroot as their nurse. A battered Republican elephant took second; and the Three Little Pigs, one impersonated by Louis Howe's Secretary Margaret ("Rabbit") Durand were third.
The Royal Italian Big-Game Hunt reached a glorious climax in the jungles of Italian Somaliland when King Vittorio Emanuele III brought down a bull elephant with a single shot.