Word: elephantic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Suddenly the earth under Managua rumbled and heaved. A 20-ft. stone wall swayed like an elephant's flank, crashed down on Commander Baske and Clerk Dickey, burying them completely. Lieut. Denham who was seven feet behind was felled but not killed by part of the roof. Meantime, screaming...
An entertainment troupe which eats 10,000 pancakes for breakfast, carries its own post office and uses more than half the elephants in America opened its 1931 season in Manhattan last week-Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey's Combined Shows, in every sense the Greatest Show on Earth. This...
Cinemactor Douglas Fairbanks, big-game hunting in India (TIME, Jan. 12; March 2), sent a runner to Calcutta with the news that he had shot three leopards, a tiger and, while riding elephant-back, a panther.
Chaplin films there are touches of smut: Chaplin as a busy street cleaner seeing an endless troop of mules, hurrying in the opposite direction, only to meet an elephant; Chaplin acting girlish toward a prize fighter stripping for battle.
Last week Arthur J. McHugh, who supplements his Manhattan roofing business by running a stable for animals, revealed the financial difficulties of many an animal-act man. Roofer McHugh has at various times boarded lions, camels, zebras, elephants, kangaroos, snakes, bears, horses, dogs. He charges by the space they occupy...