Word: hippopotami
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...acting honors are easily captured by a herd of hippopotami plunging like dolphins in an African river, and by a Hollywood hyena whose night prowling about the camp has a superbly eerie quality. Among the Hollywood cast, Ava Gardner is surprisingly effective in the early scenes in Paris. Screen Writer Casey Robinson describes the script as "one-third Hemingway, one-third Zanuck and one-third myself"-a dilution of talent that probably accounts for the pat, happy ending, the atmosphere of whining self-pity, and the resolute backing away from any issues except sugar-coated love...
...about 99 percent of the people--cannot understand that it takes a good Big Ten team to crush a good Coast team. A poor one cannot do it, especially on the Coast. Washington made the huge Minnesota line (average weight from end to end: 215 pounds) look like hippopotami in quicksand, while an excellent runner named Hugh McElhenny ran rings around a green defensive backfield...
...than one Zanzibari "disappeared into the cooking pot." He also described butterflies flying overhead in clouds, "some taking hours to pass"; beetles boring into the tent poles and showering sawdust into the soup. Natives shot poisoned arrows at the passing column, "baboons howled within the darkness . . . and . . . herds of hippopotami grunted thunderously" along the river...
William Randolph Hearst's personal shopping list was glommed some years ago by a literary visitor, and the gossip finally reached the Saturday Review of Literature. The list read: "1 pair shoelaces, 1 croup kettle, 2 hippopotami...
Alligators, hippopotami and petrels all have muscle valves which close their nostrils when they enter water. Seals and polar bears can also pull in their ears. But man is "a terrestrial being," with no "musculature for closing the nostrils, and keeping water from the nasal cavities and their appurtenances." Thus wrote Dr. Hermon Marshall Taylor of Jacksonville, Fla. in the Journal of the American Medical Association last week, agitating against humans participating in that No. 1 Florida pastime: swimming. Contrary to popular belief, he said, not contaminated water but plain swimming, even in pure pools, is responsible for the boils...