Word: hippos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Blondie The Hippo Discovered...
...hippopotamus, which looks like its sesquipedalian name, is actually so called because a Greek traveler thought it resembled a "horse of the river." Like horses, most hippos are kind and gentle, though a few are extremely cruel at times. Ordinarily docile is Rosie, 15-year-old, 3,000-lb. female hippo in Manhattan's Central Park Zoo, who last week gave birth for the first time. Despite zookeepers' precautions, Rosie butted her newly-born unmercifully, refused it food. The baby hippo, a 52-lb. male, was moved to a separate cage, fed goat's milk and cream...
...hippo is envisaged as being translated into heaven...
...winter to assure another season, grand opera is being made to pay. The Metropolitan's best seats cost $7. Best seats for Hippodrome opera cost 99?. Metropolitan performances are put on by a long-experienced impresario who has listened to opera since his cradle days. Opera at the Hippo drome is the venture of two hard-headed theatre men who care nothing about music. But a few years ago when Cecil E. Mayberry was managing a movie house in Chicago he became interested in the money troubles of the Civic Opera Com pany, blamed the high admissions...
Hubert the Arch Hippo usually dwelt in the Umzimvubu River, occasionally, however, foraging over the land. Last week Hubert was wading and snorting in the Keiskama River when some sacrilegious native, scofflaw Afrikander or bloodthirsty American crept up and slew the beast with a bullet over each...