Word: hippopotami
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...mechanic, a native maid for Mrs. Johnson, nearly 200 native servants and an incredible number of supplies necessary for the making of good pictures, moving and still. Here meandered, day and night, elephants, "the good natured (until roused) bourgeois of the forest," the always bad-humored rhinos, the stupid hippopotami, dainty Abyssinian bushbucks and their antelope and gazelle cousins, gossipy baboons, antbear and wart hogs, genets, and the carnivorous jackals, hyenas, leopards, lions, reptiles, nightingales, storks, flamingoes...
Diggers for the Field Museum, Chicago, returned last winter from the barrens of northern Argentina, bringing 3,000 pounds of fossil promacrauchenia (ancestor of the llama), glyptodonts (giant armadillos), toxodonts (hippopotami...
...from Kansas: "Besides my duties as a law maker, I bring joy into many a prairie home with my Cap per's Weekly, famed 16-page clean tabloid hodgepodge. My paper entertains with pictures of Mrs. Leo nard Kip Rhinelander, Iowa's champion grandma, mother and child hippopotami - all sandwiched in between "sillygisms" and other little quips. Fortnight ago, one of my editors conceived this one: 'A great thunderclap shook the earth during a shower. "Wow," exclaimed a colored citizen standing under an awning. "Hell done laid a aig."' But my little paper is not facetious...
...Africa before the New Year. In March the remainder of the party-including Mr. Eastman-will follow. They will start from Mombasa and travel into the hinterland 24 hours by rail to Nairobi. Six months will be spent in the great game country, where Theodore Roosevelt hunted elephants, hippopotami, rhinoceri, lions, leopards, zebras, giraffes, antelopes and gazelles in 1909. This is Mr. Akeley's fifth trip to the same region. Guns, cameras and scientific eyes will be brought to bear upon African fauna and flora in the interests of Science...
...paltry sum of twenty-five dollars the State Convention of Lions clubs secured a real lion, guaranteed not to get too rough with his name-sakes, and the Central Park zoo stands ready to supply any organization with its chosen animal, all the way from snakes to hippopotami, at a charge depending on the gross tonnage of the beast...