Word: elephantic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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He got the U. S. rights to a picture called Whom the Gods Would Destroy for $4,250, sold shares in it for $42.50 to 99 Wall Street men. He used their backing when he was head of World Film Corp. which had an elephant for a trademark. When the...
Died. Alpheus George Barnes Stonehouse (Al G. Barnes), 68, circusman, founder and longtime owner of Barnes's Circus; after a lingering illness; in Indio, Calif. He started his show in 1895 with a pony, a phonograph, a stereopticon. A colorful participant at every performance, he would lead the opening...
Explorer Bezuidenhout explained he had accomplished his feat by disguising himself as a wild pig, going about grunting. Once a male okapi- who failed to be photographed- kicked the pig. Once an elephant charged the pig, made Mr. Bezuidenhout evacuate the pigskin, which it tusked and trampled.
In most European countries to call a man a camel (French chameau, German Kamel) is merely to call him "stupid" or a "simp." Most insulting in French or German are compounds of animal names such as "You camel-toad-elephant-crocodile-rat-pig!" If a one-word insult is wanted...
President Henry Fairfield Osborn of the American Museum of Natural History, also a paleontologist, was to talk next for 15 minutes on his hypothesis that the organs of an animal have their own struggle for existence. That is why animals of the same general family have different characteristics. Example: the...