Word: hippopotamus
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...John's, South Africa, Hubert, a hippopotamus who had waddled 1,000 miles from Zululand, irritated a town councilor by following him into the town hall. Previously, the hippopotamus had waddled about the business district of St. John's on two occasions and had once strolled from his home in the Umzipulu River to Durban, where he entered the lobby of a hotel. Friendly, the hippopotamus is reported to have lost his temper only once, when natives threw stones at him, causing him to charge them, injuring...
...black chimpanzee, shook the bars of his cage. Irritated, a lion roared into the instrument. Sea lions, excited with fish, grunted and barked. Monkeys chattered, birds screeched, an elephant snorted, a tiger growled, all very obligingly. But Peter, a large hippopotamus, plunged to the bottom of his tank, made not a single grunt. Coyotes, who generally bark when 5 o'clock whistles blow in Manhattan, were fooled by the siren of a fire engine at 4 o'clock, refused to bark again at 5 for the radio audience...
...whom Disraeli said to Queen Victoria: "I am of the opinion, madame, that there never can be too many Rothschilds." FORTUNE presented, by tribes, several dozen Rothschilds now living, including one-eyed Baron James, duelling Senator Maurice, fat doctor-playwright Baron Henri (under a parasol, sitting on a dead hippopotamus) and fatter Baron Lionel Walter, who collects fleas...
Under patronage of the American Museum of Natural History, the expedition hopes to make friends of the Ituran pigmy people by feeding them cake and candy. The pigmies may then lead Jungleer Johnson to the hidden lairs of the midget red buffalo, elephant, hippopotamus where, guarded by his sharpshooting wife, he will photograph and sound-record the awesome sights and sounds of an African jungle, by day and night...
Died. Mrs. Murphy, 75, of Manhattan, dowager hippopotamus of the Central Park zoo, first of her species to enter the U. S. (1880), relict of Caliph I, mother of Caliph II; of indigestion and senility; in Manhattan. Her teeth and appetite had worn away. Her last meal was a meagre 60 Ibs. of chopped hay, 30 qts. of mash...