Word: elephantic
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Before the conference opened, Chairman Spangler made a drastic change in the scenery : a single pottery elephant, with drooping trunk, was removed from the stage, replaced by two elephants with heads and trunks suitably rampant. As the gavel fell, no one could doubt who was in charge. Chairman Spangler occupied...
Work for the BBC closely resembles a love affair with an elephant: the pleasure is nil, the danger of being crushed to pieces extreme, and in any case no results can be expected for nine years.*
* An exaggeration. The average gestation period of an elephant is roughly 18 months.
Stripped of much of its finery, the Stevens looked like even more of a white elephant than it had been in the plush-furnished days when its private owners could earn nothing on their $28,000,000 original investment. People talked about turning it into an office building, a free...
Thus the Army made a neat profit of almost $700,000 on its white elephant. Except for Winner Kirkaby, who said the Stevens would be doing business in 60 days, Chicago hotelmen were not so happy. They remembered a sad Chicago maxim: nobody makes money in the hotel business when...