Word: pachyderms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pachyderm arrived as the result of a little speculative adventure on the part of Captain Jacob Crowninshield, of the Salem family of Crowninshields, who bought it at a bargain sale in Bengal for $450, only to sell it the minute it walked off the pier in New York...
...large, childish Tammon is given as much space, and every line about him is worth reading. There is no more amusing tale than that of Tammen and his struggles to breed a baby elephant for his circus, the Sells-Floto; and the final fate of the last, stuffed, baby pachyderm, which Tammen kept in a case in the Post offices, is told with fine pathos. The remarkable paper which the partners built comes in likewise for a good share of the author's effort. Here in relation of the almost unbelievable productions of the Bonfils-Tammen journalism, are rare gems...
...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...