Word: pongo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pongo Twistleton, Uncle Fred's nephew, who goes all "white and shaken, like a dry martini" on seeing the punctured topper fly through...
Knorke was 17 months old and a sick gorilla when Nurse Rosemarie Hohler first saw him. Bought by the West Berlin Zoo to replace Pongo, its prewar gorilla bayoneted to death by Russian soldiers, Knorke had been flown in from the French Cameroons, and had promptly fallen sick of paratyphoid fever. Zoo officials sent Knorke to the City Hospital, put the sad little ape in quarantine in a sealed-off room, and explained that paratyphoid, though usually only a mild human disorder, can be fatal to gorillas. Looking compassionately at Knorke, 24-year-old Rosemarie volunteered to go into quarantine...
...bolter's. But they find him, and tell him his crimes were a furphy, and that the real spieler, that gazob at the pub, dropped his bundle and smoked for Sydney till the bible-basher got the leg-rope on him. In the end, of course, a pongo cobber shouts Smiley a bike, and everything is bokker. Got the flaming drill...