Word: hippopotamus
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Sometimes she is seen strolling calmly down a corridor with a hippopotamus on a leash. Sometimes she is roasting an ox in her room, or hanging a teacher ("Well, that's O.K.-now for old 'Stinks' "), or merely stretching a chum out on a medieval rack. On nature walks, she likes to collect poisonous mushrooms ("Chuck those out-they're harmless"), would hardly ever go boating without making at least one lowerclassman walk the plank. Faced with a faculty frown ("Hand up the girl who burnt down the East Wing last night"), she can look angelic...
Perhaps the only genuinely new car, and certainly the most interesting, came from the small independent Willys-Overland. Combining an efficient new F-head engine, excellent vision, ample driver room, and an overall length of fifteen feet, the new Willys is a refreshing change from the prevailing "pregnant hippopotamus school of car design. Regrettably though, the Willys is a medium rather than a low-priced...
...someone called up to ask how much the average-sized hippopotamus weighed," says Mrs. Beatrice Pitcher, head of the Information Office. And this is only one of the strange requests she gets. Other questioners want answers to newspaper contests, types of rocks, and bugs...
Foul Shot. In Milwaukee, as the Washington Park Zoo's prize hippopotamus opened its mouth wide for the audience, spectator Jerome Fischer got all set, wound up, heaved a beer can right into the yawning jaws...
...workingman to come to church to sing 'I will think upon Rahab and Babylon' ... or such gibberish as the verse of the 68th Psalm beginning, 'Rebuke the company of the spearmen'? I am told that the correct translation of these words is 'Rebuke the hippopotamus.'* Our churchgoers would sing this with equal unction if they had it before them, as fashionable ladies cheerfully sing the Magnificat, which is more violent than The Red Flag...