Word: trunkful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Long Shot. In London, Ranee, a female elephant at the zoo, felt a cold-in-the-trunk coming on, was dosed by her keeper with a pint...
...elephants of the Bertram Mills circus in London were in a painful fix with fibrositis-thickening of the trunk muscles. A correspondent cabled the news to the U.S. and added a guess. The elephants' affliction, he reported, was doubtless due to lack of peanuts...
Looking at the marble palaces built by U.S. financial titans, Novelist Henry James once described Newport as a "breeding ground for white elephants." Some of them now loom chipped and sagging in the long grass, but they still make an imposing trunk-to-tail parade down and around Bellevue Avenue. Their gates are generally shut to the public, but last week from paintings on exhibition in a Manhattan gallery, the curious could get an idea of what the elephants' insides looked like...
...supply contact either with the home isles or, in dreaded necessity, with a refugee government in Canada. From Nigeria the girdle could reach east to Kenya, along any of several possible roads, absorb a string of World War II airbases, make a junction with the north-south Cape Town trunk road...
...Seven, Alexander Jackson, once tried to explain why their roughhewn version of Paris' impressionism was just the thing for painting Canada. Wrote he: "From sunlight in the hardwoods with bleached, violet-white tree trunks against a blaze of red and orange, we wander into the denser spruce and pine woods where the sunlight filters through; gold and silver splashes playing with startling vividness on a birch trunk or patch of green moss. Such a subject would change entirely in ten minutes, and unless the first impression was firmly adhered to, the sketch would end in confusion...