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...educational world. The grievous mistake of a group of serenaders who had the brass to parade before said headquarters singing "There's no wolf around my door" has been brought to light with startling vividness with the announcement that there are now three Wolffs and an orang outang to assist delinquent students over the scholastic bumps. Whether the latest addition to Clan Wolff will be tutored by his playmate Peter or whether he will cast aside the paternal yoke and resort to the tutoring note method of self-erudition has not yet been disclosed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 5/6/1937 | See Source »

...fell ill of a cold, recovered, as did two chimpanzees, Teddy and Jo-Jo. These episodes were reported far & wide, but nowhere did a U. S. writer wax so eloquent as did Colyumist "Doc" Adams of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin upon the death last month of a goitrous orang-outang named Jennie. Colyumist Adams wrote the following elegy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: End of N'Gi | 3/21/1932 | See Source »

...plain Orang-Outang And if others didn't like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: End of N'Gi | 3/21/1932 | See Source »

Pessek was an orang-outang who closed her shutters when visitors bored her, who politely returned Author Eipper the peels and pips of a gift-orange. Mr. Eipper next looked at the pale faery eyes of a Bengal tigress, fixed on distance like those of some Eastern image. He watched the pelican gulp fish. He sat down and let four orang-outang infants clamber over him and played with them as an equal. From the rear he looked at the young elephants- "like forlorn village children in the Sunday pants of a corpulent parent." Only the chimpanzees disturbed him. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wild Life | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...What well known animal, besides the gorilla, chimpanzee, guinea pig, two-tailed sloth, orang-outang, has no visible tail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Evening This Week: Game No. 4 | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

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