Word: pachyderm
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...their marriage; again in 1909, when they met Theodore Roosevelt's safari. She learned to shoot expertly, killed the biggest elephants both trips. On the second trip, she saved her husband's life on the "elephant-infested" slopes of Mt. Kenya where he had been gored by a bull pachyderm, abandoned by his blacks. In 1923 Explorer Akeley went again to Africa. She did not accompany him but obtained a divorce in Chicago, charging cruelty. Then she went to Africa alone, crossed it from east to west with only native porters for company, bagging big game for the Brooklyn Museum...
...deserted Explorer Akeley when he was being gored by a bull pachyderm...
...caste. Once he lived in a palace, wore gold trappings, and had girls to dance before him while he ate the choicest fruits. Now he is housed in an ordinary stable and, like his darker brethren, must work in harness for his hay. Such is the fate of the pachyderm which legend calls the heavenly form of Gantama Buddha...
Would know that it was Albuquerque. PACHYDERM...
Though M. A. B. has "bolstered" his array of adjectives with only two specific instances, his characterization of these eighty poems as "morbid", "disordered", "pleasant", "grotesque", "formless", "meager", "eccentric", "odd", "tricky", and "unhousebroken", is evidence of a sensitiveness hardly to be expected from out ingenuous pachyderm. J. B. WHEELWRIGHT '20 February...