Word: proboscises
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Insanely popeyed, ponderously oozy, hideously fierce of tusk and whisker, a full-grown sea-elephant suggests some monstrous abortion of the animal kingdom's primal urge. Shrewd John Ringling told the public about sea elephants through Calvin Coolidge. When he took his circus to Washington in 1928 Mr. Ringling called...
The theme is familiar. Gladys, a chorus girl, wants a man with money. She finds soon enough dollars are not as nice as Neil Hamilton's square jaw and swift right job to an opponent's proboscis. She gets him in three episodes.
¶ What is a sea elephant? President Coolidge knew all about the land elephant, which is the symbol of his political party: the largest of land animals, herbivorous, mammalian, ungulate, with a flexible proboscis, exaggerated incisors (tusks), rudimentary tail. But what is a sea elephant; mammal or fish? President Coolidge...
Most monkeys are gay & cheerful, but the proboscis monkey from Malaysia and the howling monkey from the tropics are a pair of supercilious snobs. Dr. Raymond Lee Ditmars of the N. Y. Zoological Garden has kept a howling monkey for three years only by pampering and coddling it, keeping it...
"Whee, whee, whee", cried my roommate, devilish little tense. And he inserted a coughdrop in the proboscis of the ivory bearer. He still wears the evidence of that gaucherie. I hurried him to see the fat lady. "Wellesley", he whooped, "Wellesley", and bought her picture to send to a friend...