Word: elephantic
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Stepping off the train into a milk-white "duck" (amphibious truck), Tandon was pelted with flowers. Headed by an elephant borrowed from an itinerant circus, the procession jogged through packed and bedecked streets. Behind Tandon's duck came 5,000 Congress delegates, a score of mounted military cadets and...
A book reviewer's disclosure of the denouement of a mystery novel-whether it be called a detective story, a novel of suspense, or merely "an enigma"-has always been generally regarded as a cross between torn peepery and violation of a blindman's cup. Turning to the...
Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History put on a little show this week to make the weariest museum trudger smile: eight plaster statuettes of fabled animals. Among them were Pegasus sitting exhausted on a cloud, Leda tête-à-tête with a Donald-Duckish swan...
It wasn't, at least not for E. C. Bentley. Elephant's Work is written as smoothly as whipped cream, and it is not a jot more thrilling that a session with a charlotte russe.
The book starts promisingly enough when an enraged elephant on an English circus train flails about with its trunk in the cab of a nearby locomotive and sends a passenger train off on a wild, wreck-climaxed run. Just before the crash, a U.S. gangster type slips his revolver and...