Word: elephantitis
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Last week the proprietors of a traveling circus playing Wuppertal decided to combine the talents of the district's flying streetcars with those of their own earth-bound star, a 450-lb. heifer elephant named Tuffi.
As a general rule, elephants and streetcars are better off when they do not try to fly, but all rules have their exceptions. A few years back Walt Disney conceived an elephant named Dumbo with ears so big that he could flap them like wings and fly through the air...
Like the blind men who tried to describe an elephant, few agreed on the meaning of Congress' bill to legalize a form of basing point pricing system for U.S. industry (TIME, June 12). The bill's author, Democratic Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, no friend of big...
Superstitions have grown up around certain of the animals. The elephant (45, 46, 47, 48) represents death. When the press recently reported a suicide at 945 Copacabana Avenue, bicho players recognized the last numbers as the elephant's and rushed to place their bets. When No. 945 came up...
At the far end of a lobby-sized green-and-gold Hollywood office last week, a wiry, high-domed man gnawed a massive cigar, paced briskly back & forth, and spewed memoranda in a loud Midwestern twang. Occasionally, hypnotized by his own train of thought, he ducked briefly into an open...