Word: hippopotamus
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...York City's Bronx Zoo, Superintendent Quentin Schubert and Executive Secretary John Tee-Van pondered the problem of how to weigh Pete, a 43-year-old hippopotamus. Scales were obviously out of the question. Suddenly they remembered Archimedes...
...told that a multiple drill has sex appeal.") Two letter writers thought Picasso's pictures should be kept from children. Another critic was not so worried. He reported overhearing a six-year-old, who had intently studied a swollen, mysterious Picasso abstraction, comment: "Why, there's a hippopotamus...
Herbert Fleishhacker, 71-year-old San Francisco banker, tossed peanuts to the animals in the zoo named after him (where, in 1936, the chimpanzee squirted him with a mouthful of water), suddenly fell into the hippopotamus pool. Fleishhacker landed in nine feet of water, was rescued before he rolled under 2,500 Ib. Puddles...
This summer more U.S. citizens than ever before will ponder the hippopotamus, resting on his belly in the mud, will regard the hooded cobra, the shuffling, suddenly acrobatic chimpanzee, the reflective giraffe, the plaintively greedy bears. U.S. zoos expect the largest crowds in history. Reason: all zoos can be reached by bus, streetcar or A-cards...
When the sun dried a patch of sidewalk, Moscow children played hopscotch. Peasants brought the first pussywillows to the markets. Hothouses dispatched their first onions and radishes to hospitals and children's homes. In the zoo a baby hippopotamus was expected...