Word: ogopogo
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...Again, Ogopogo...
...Ooooh! The Ogopogo!" cried a woman tennis player, pointing her racquet at Okanagan Lake. And again, last week, news readers throughout the land were reminded of British Columbia's fabulous lake-serpent. A gentle monster, 30 ft. long, "with the face of a sheep, the head of a bulldog, four flippers and vegetarian habits," the Ogopogo has appeared in Okanagan Lake every summer for the past six years. Usually it is sighted by a newshawk...
...Three weeks ago, it seemed, some one had found a wonderful prehistoric lizard in an ice cake on Glacier Island. The animal was 42 ft. long, was covered with fur in perfect condition. Scientists, knowing that no lizard has fur, thought at first that the creature might be another ogopogo, the mysterious beast sometimes seen on the Pacific coast by imaginative people (TIME, Aug. 4). Dr. Barnum Brown, lizard expert of the American Museum (Manhattan) took the news more seriously, sent a telegram to Dr. Charles E. Bunnell, president of Alaska Agricultural College & School of Mines, asking him to investigate...
Some three years ago the Vancouver Board of Trade was on tour through the Okanagan Valley and at the pretty city of Vernon the delegates were guests of Vernon Rotarians at luncheon. The musical programme included a song "I'm looking for the Ogopogo" which has a swinging chorus and was originally introduced in a London musical show. We delegates picked up the song and decided that as we were in the Okanagan we might as well "look for the Ogopogo." The name became popular and has spread all over the world. There are various theories...
...want him for the Lord Mayor's show- or words to that effect. On p. 30 of your Aug. 4 number you speak of an ogopogo in British Columbia. Which came first, the Co-optimist's ogopogo or the Indians...