Word: okapi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...November day in 1935 a babbling, excited band of pygmies pranced into the Catholic Mission at Buta, in the Belgian Congo, carrying with them a baby okapi, scarcely a dozen days old. They had captured him 90 miles away in the surrounding Ituri Forest, a jungle so dense that only a pygmy can penetrate it. Delightedly the Buta brothers caught up the little animal...
...hazy shots of cheetahs, lions, tigers, giraffes, antelopes, elephants, hippopotamuses, assorted naked savages, waving grass. Goriest scenes are young Masai tribesmen sucking up the blood of a dead bullock, black coolies scooping out elephant feet to make wastebaskets for the U.S. market. Cinematic Afrophiles will relish the rare, sleek okapi, a herd of sunbathing hippos, the giant Latukas whose hunters tower seven feet tall, and the mystic snake dance of the Mariari cult...
Oddest of all is the zebra-like okapi, a kind of short-necked giraffe so rare that it is usually caught only by native pygmies with pitfalls...
Pawtucket, R. I., Oct. 31--Okapi and Mack Garner teamed up here today at Narragansett Park and whipped the great Equipoise...
...John F. Dodge (automobiles) left her, decided to take,up horse racing. She had bad luck until Bob Smith, 40 years in the business, took over her stable two years ago. He bought Time Clock for $700, Cavalcade for $1,200, High Quest for $3,500. Brookmeade had acquired Okapi for $6,500 and Inlander for $7,200 the year before. With these bargains as the nucleus of a small stable of 39 head, Trainer Smith stepped out in 1933 and proceeded to lay the foundations for a record which is now unequalled by any other horse-owning sportswoman...