Word: trunkful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...instructor of physical education in San Jose (Calif.) State College, where the four strapping dancing demonstrators were students. Had Miss Jewell been present in Los Angeles last week, she would have advised playing on drums for cripples. Wrote she: "Excellent postural results can be derived from cross-legged sitting, trunk erect, arms lifted from the shoulder-elbows akimbo, while the pupil's interest is intrigued with rhythmic patterns to be played on her drum. Heart cases who often feel very 'out of things' because of numerous restrictions may become valuable members of a percussion group...
...began to squeal and stamp. Throughout the zoo rose a jungle din of roars, howls, screams, snarls. Rudolph Bjork and another keeper seized an iron rod and an elephant hook, began beating and prodding at the maddened beast through the paddock bars. His little eyes bloodred, Wally flourished his trunk at them, went on stamp'ng and gouging his victim. Guards scurried up, stood with rifles cocked to shoot the female elephants if they should stampede. It was too late to do anything for Ed Brown. His body was in four pieces when the keepers finally drove Wally...
...centre of the hall, looming up in the dim light, is a group of eight big-eared elephants. They have no setting, give an overpowering impression of tons of monstrous life on the move. One enormous bull raises his trunk horizontally as a danger signal. The bull at the rear wheels around to make sure no enemy is following. Four of these beasts were shot by the museum's President Frederick Trubee Davison (TIME, Aug. 14; Sept. n, 1933). The other four were bagged by the late Carl Akeley...
...clawed by a leopard. On another occasion, while studying a herd of elephants, he was suddenly charged by a bull. His gun jammed. Akeley seized the tusks of the oncoming beast, swung himself between them so that they drove into the ground without touching him. With its trunk the elephant smashed the explorer's nose, laid open his cheek, broke several ribs which punctured his lungs, then was distracted by the native boys and gave chase. During a three-month convalescence in a hospital, Akeley planned all the details of his African hall...
...Italian General was the first recognition of any foreign government that the conquest of Ethiopia is now an accomplished fact. Meanwhile one of Marshal Badoglio's most dapper staff officers. Captain Adolfo Alessandri, dug his Sunday inspection breeches and best white gloves from the bottom of his campaign trunk, visited in turn every foreign legation in Addis Ababa. Clicking his heels he explained politely that each envoy would enjoy "every diplomatic privilege until the time of your departure." It was Italy's first official notification to the world that henceforth Ethiopia was not even to be considered another...