Word: toto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Toto rolled over on her pet cat, crushed it, when her cage was knocked 30 feet by a freight train during loading operations at West Palm Beach. The lady gorilla, mate of Gargantua, was unhurt...
These concessions may have seemed reasonable to the Commission, but they were rejected hotly and in toto by both NBC and CBS. Said CBS: "The Commission . talks of stability when in reality it is creating instability ... it talks of promoting competition whereas it is merely forcing chaos. . . ." The chains contended, as before, that FCC has no power to make such regulations, that its action constitutes a threat to the freedom...
...making its criticisms and suggestions without being fettered by considerations which are involved in a vote of confidence." But instead of pressing this point, Lloyd George spent much of his time charging that the U.S. has been a laggard in helping Britain-a criticism scarcely to be laid in toto at Winston Churchill's door...
...ring and take a bow in unison. Hubert Castle staggers like a drunken clubman on his tightwire. And in his air-conditioned, chrome steel cage in the menagerie, Gargantua, the 550-lb. gorilla who at eleven years is probably not yet old enough to mate with M'Toto, his presumed gorillass (TIME, March 3), makes the angriest faces in the world and then wearily turns on his audience the silver-grey, pointed-fox smoothness of his huge back and buttocks...
...adjoining cage M'Toto manages to look a lot like him and still be labeled "cute." Last week M'Toto's former owner, swank, socialite Mrs. E. Kenneth Hoyt, traveled from her Havana estate to see M'Toto and supervise a light lunch of eggs, salad, cup custard and a pound of filet mignon. Backing out of M'Toto's presence, Mrs. Hoyt brushed against the one side of Gargantua's cage that is not glass-enclosed. Gargantua thrust a huge hand between the bars and, with a single twitch of a clawed...