Word: elephantic
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Victims and Successors. Out went: Field Marshal Gen. Sugiyama, the brilliant, irascible, Occident-hating Army Chief of Staff, opposite number of the U.S.'s George Marshall; and big, competent (to a point) Fleet Admiral Osami ("Elephant") Nagano, opposite number of the U.S.'s Ernie King.
At Eton, already a hulking, good-natured youngster, he got the inevitable nickname of "Jumbo." Elephants have since become a matter of fascination to him. His children remember that on trips to the zoo he could watch the elephants all day. He admires elephant-foot carpets, likes little ivory jumbos...
The big beast was no longer skinny and bag-kneed; its once limp and drooping trunk now swayed with menacing promise. But the G.O.P. elephant mostly drowsed or shifted from foot to foot. Every time the Party seemed about to wake up, a red-faced, elderly mahout named Harrison Spangler...
Akers chopped through a bamboo thicket, came face to face with a bull elephant, trunk raised, tusks outthrust. The beast charged, hooking viciously with a tusk, knocked the pilot beneath a bush. Stunned and suffering from a deep wound, Akers eventually regained consciousness. That night he slept under a tree...
Wrote he: "As a promontory among noses it would have earned the admiration of Slawken-Bergius.*. . . It is indeed a very remarkable nose . . . and one which differentiates itself from other remarkable noses. It has not the tremendous hook of Lord Chatham's; it is not aspiring, like the Younger...