Word: elephantic
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At a Washington cocktail party, Perle Mesta, U.S. Minister to Luxembourg, and Mme. Henri Bonnet, wife of the French ambassador, arrived in identical hats (an elephant-grey number embellished with shell pearls and sequin-dotted veil). The two ladies, both schooled in diplomacy, merely spoke politely.
SHOOTING AN ELEPHANT (200 pp.]-George Orwell - Harcourt, Brace ($2.75).
Before he died early this year, Orwell was working on a collection of his essays. Shooting an Elephant, the portion he completed, is a trim little book of autobiographical reminiscence, literary criticism and incidental journalism. It has all the customary Orwell virtues: humor, moderation, intelligence. Though one of his minor...
For the Natives. The best piece in the book is the title essay, a slender recollection of an incident during Orwell's days as a British constable in Burma. Orwell had been called out to shoot a tame elephant gone rogue. He did not really want to shoot the...
That was putting it mildly. For Gugel, spring was best symbolized by an elephant and some trumpets. "Spring is quiet," he says, as if to make everything clear. Summer is, of course, hotter; Gugel captured it in a high-heeled shoe of a curious sort. The heel of the shoe...