Word: elephantic
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Not that there was any dearth of trappings. The town swarmed with Cabinet officers, Administration czars and such exhausted sparks of former party glory as Indiana's Paul McNutt. There was bunting in the streets and bourbon on the table. Democratic headquarters passed out Victory Kits containing whistles, Truman...
The world was learning about the U.S., but to most of its people an elephant was still only an elephant.
He was moored by the feet atop the Broad Street marquee of the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel. He was a 15-ft. balloon-rubber elephant with an upraised trunk, a flapping lower lip and a silly smile.
There were sideshows everywhere. Harold Stassen's backers handed out slices of cheese in their headquarters, carried a pretty girl through jammed lobbies in a rowboat. She held a sign which read: "Man the oars, ride the crest, Harold Stassen, he's the best." The Taft camp imported...
The scallopers took their catch to New York, where Dr. Edwin H. Colbert of the American Museum of Natural History identified the tooth as the upper left third molar of a mastodon (a proto-elephant of the Pleistocene Age that tramped North America some 30,000 to 250,000 years...