Word: elephantic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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East Wind's velocity is exceedingly low except for the sporadic appearance of a funnyman named Joe Penner. Mr. Penner bounces around, ogles like a monstrous, puckish infant. He sells a bleached elephant to some unsuspecting Indo-Chinese, is thereafter terrorized by the victims of his chicane.
Died. Khartoum, 28, gluttonous, misanthropic 7,000-lb. elephant, largest in captivity; of heart disease after prolonged overfeeding and lethargic life; in New York Zoological Park, The Bronx.
Universal's menagerie of 40 animals includes a 52-year-old alligator named Little Joe (after the number four in dice games) because he so frequently comes up, for food. Little Joe, procured from a bankrupt Florida circus, has been incarcerated at Universal City ever since it was built...
In 1927 the Starks took over the Sebastopol Burbank Test Orchards which they now maintain for development and test of Burbank fruits which Burbank never had time to introduce. Most important result of their work is Burbank's Elephant Heart plum, a red-fleshed plum almost as big as a...
It is in the detailed, usually comic portraits of minor characters, and in a Dickensian wealth of incident that Author Mann most openly and ably copies the Victorians. Grope's second employer, the bookdealer, gives all his time to painting ridiculous pictures which he considers masterpieces; his garrulous wife infuriates...