Word: elephantic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week one of Editor Patterson's journalistic enterprises reached a new anecdotal high. It was a new daily feature called "The Doctor Tells The Story." It was Editor Patterson's own product. It came to him last month in a letter from Dr. William Edmund Aughinbaugh. elderly...
"Every morning the White Elephant had for his breakfast milk from the breasts of twenty-four women, who knelt naked before him . . . only mothers of recently born children. . . . Dr. O'Malley, surgeon to King Thebaw [was] always required to resuscitate and revive the ones making this sacrifice. The White...
But titillating the Daily News' 1,480,000 readers with a story of a suckling elephant is by no means the full measure of Editor Patterson's capacity as a newspaper publisher. He can point with pride to a first-rate layout of picture pages, thoroughgoing and breezy...
"Mais ils sont fantastique!" cried Consul Bourguin and purchased a bunch of spotted yellow bananas. A bull elephant swayed forward automatically, shot out his crinkled trunk and delicately stuffed a handful of bananas into his little pink mouth. Suddenly two little red eyes focussed on Consul Bourguin, the elephant stopped...
"What bothers me, gentlemen," said he, "is whether or not I ever met and unwittingly insulted that elephant years ago. My memory, of course, cannot compare with his. No. I have never served in India, but I have served in Cairo. Was that elephant ever in Egypt? Or was it...