Word: gophering
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...party because day before he had painted himself pea green by rolling around in his freshly painted cell. Once there was a seal (not from the zoo) loose on nearby Pelham Parkway, and they went out and captured him to add to the collection. And once a shipment of gopher snakes arrived at the zoo frozen like walking sticks, and had to be thawed out before they went on exhibition...
Four men, who swore they had not gotten together previously, told the tale of "the poor damn side-hill gopher animal, whose legs on one side were longer than those on another, and hence he had to walk on the side of a hill...
...Beverly Hills landlady Mrs. Bessie Ginzberg Lasky, wife of Producer Jesse Louis Lasky, was ordered to pay $201 damages inflicted on their house by their 12-year-old son's pet birds, mice, ducks, gopher snakes...
...American Provident Society in Manhattan. Stanford's President Ray Lyman Wilbur observed: "The gopher is, par excellence, a saving animal. He stores seeds and leaves in the ground. Perhaps we should consider the gopher and be wise...
...looks like a long fight," said the voice on the telephone. Dr. Sealock finished the letter, sat down to supper. After supper he talked quietly with his wife and daughter in the sun room. Finally he got up, walked into the kitchen. There he mixed a glass of gopher poison, gulped it down...