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Word: elephantic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Does the admonition not to take seriously O. Soglow's Sanka coffee cartoon in your Nov. 6 issue include the giraffe represented as adding to the din created by the elephant and tiger with sounds of his own?

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 11, 1933 | 12/11/1933 | See Source »

When Seton Porter sensed the groundswell of Repeal, things began to hum. One wintry day in 1932 he called up Henry Mason Day, the big, grizzled, taciturn partner of Redmond & Co. who loyally went to jail with his good friend Harry Ford Sinclair for jury-shadowing. Mr. Day picked up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Rum Rush | 12/4/1933 | See Source »

Died. "Mom," 92, biggest female elephant in the U. S., property of Dr. Pierre A. ("Oom the Omnipotent") Bernard; of cardiac rheumatism; in Nyack, N. Y. Circus Romancer Courtney Ryley Cooper sped to Nyack to attend her last moments.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 20, 1933 | 11/20/1933 | See Source »

Norway's political pink elephant is her Labor Party, largest in the Storting (Parliament ) but shackled by massive, bull-necked Premier Johan Ludwig Mowinckel's coalition of small bourgeois parties. Last week Norwegians voted in General Election, gave credit to Major Vidquin Quisling for having changed the Labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORWAY: Quisling Victory | 10/30/1933 | See Source »

All that was needed was a new home. President Whitney stopped off in Newark on his way in from Far Hills one morning to inspect Mayor Meyer Ellenstein's Centre Market, a big city-owned white elephant used partly as a parking garage. Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Hegira to Jersey | 10/2/1933 | See Source »

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