Word: pachyderm
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...That perked him up. The book (and his youth, says Dreiser) ends with his discharge for "borrowing" money from his boss's funds. There is still a long way to go before this gangling 19-year-old becomes the ponderous, dewlapped author of An American Tragedy, the principal pachyderm of U. S. letters, unrebuked slapper of a Nobel Prizeman (TIME, March 30). Dreiserians will hail Dawn for its candor, its shouldering, uncompromising lengthiness; antis will raise their eyebrows for the same reasons...
...several breathless seconds officials could not precisely state the whereabouts of Statesman Hughes. But he was not found squashed under dazed and groggy Poland. With the quickness of an elf, little Billy Hughes had dived under the ringside bench just before the Pachyderm landed. "I've always been spry," smiled Statesman Hughes as he crawled...
...noosed the cumbrous pachyderm of the violin species, has dragged him up out of the orchestral cellar and has revealed him to us as a creature who does not merely gambol with grotesque ponderosity, or grumble in discontented servitude, or speak oracular solemnities, but who can sing with pride and independence and lyric fervor, with something of the cello's poignantly vibrant utterance in its upper register, yet with a fullness of body, a dark and beautiful austerity, and an amplitude of sombre richness that no cello is able to attain...
...sale. Around the edge of the page, in the corners of the page, through the middle of the page, were pictures of elephants, elephants, elephants, silhouetted in white against a black background. In all there were 21 small white elephants, one large white elephant. Under each small frisky pachyderm was noted some item included in the sale, as "Jumbo Specials in Bedroom Suites," "White Elephant Kitchen Cabinets," "White Elephant...
...Mather, Associate Professor of Physiography in the University, yesterday released the facts to a CRIMSON representative concerning the recent finding of the Johnstown mastodon. The remains of the huge pachyderm were unexpectedly unearthed near Dr. Mather's home in Granville, Ohio, while he was visiting his parents, and he was called upon to examine and identify the bones. The circumstances connected with the finding were of an extraordinary nature...