Word: elephantitis
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JOHN GARDNER, addressing the Republican Platform Committee in Miami Beach last week, might have added that the nation's unhappy mood has given the G.O.P. an exciting and historic chance as well. Not since 1952 has the party in power been so vulnerable. Even without an Ike like figure...
But when you've seen one of Rockefeller's support demonstrations, you've seen them all. And when you've seen one Miami Beach hotel, you've seen them all. And when you've seen one GOP elephant, and one airline-stewardess-turned-Nixon-hostess, one real-life U. S...
Elephant Trap. Within three years, Frewen had married Clara Jerome, the daughter of a New York financier (her younger sister Jennie had recently married Lord Randolph Churchill). He had also regularized the shipment of champagne to the Powder River settlement, introduced white riding breeches and the English saddle to the...
Successively, he became involved as an investigator of graft in Hyderabad (he nailed the grafters), in the promotion of a machine to extract gold from low-grade ore (it did not work well), the colonization of Kenya (he fell into an elephant trap), lobbying for a gold-silver currency standard...
Above all, the store lives up to its cable address, "Everything, London." The variety of quality goods and services it offers is unequaled in the world. It sells anything from 200 kinds of cheese to a $25,000 French Érard piano decorated with carved brass. The store will calmly...