Word: elephantitis
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This helpful hint is offered by a 12th century bestiary, compiled by an anonymous monk and dusted off by British Novelist T. H. White (The Sword in the Stone). The work is a charming illustration of how medieval man's other-worldly eye rested on the wonders of nature...
One night the temperature dropped to 15°, and six monkeys died. Sympathetic townspeople took most of the remaining monkeys as household pets. In February, a ravenous elephant ate the roof of his pen, and died of wood splinters in his stomach. The other two elephants died from eating the...
The Façade. When Dr. Clark started trying to translate his dream hospital into reality, he could figure on an appropriation of only $1,750,000. Working with Dr. Frederick C. Elliott, overall director of the Texas Medical Center, he picked a firm of Houston architects (MacKie & Kamrath) that...
The G.O.P. elephant had developed two-and possibly four-heads, while the White House made no serious effort to enforce party unity.
This could have serious consequences for the liberal wing of the Republican Party on the national level. New York State is not quite the impregnable stronghold of liberal Republicanism that one might gather from the editorial pages of the Chicago Tribune. One of the lesser-known facts about the 1952...