Word: tusks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Barnes Circus announced that it would be glad to give San Francisco a bull which had be come a nuisance because of his uncertain temper. He was a 6-ton, 9-ft. high, 25-year-old beast called "Charley Ed," valued at $5,000 minus a tusk which he had lost in a fall from a baggage car. After he ap peared with Wallace Beery in the cinema O'Shaughnessy's Boy he was re-named "Wally." Well-behaved. Wally proved a star attraction at Fleishhacker...
Britain's Royal House. The Aga Khan sent an elephant tusk. Since the groom was George V's third son Henry. Duke of Gloucester, 35, strenuous British efforts were made to hush the lawsuit last week over the wedding dress. Supposed to have been entirely "British- made" by Norman Hartnell, Ltd. of London, Lady Alice's dress was in fact cut by M. Albert Cezard. Suing French Cutter Cezard last week, famed Italian-blooded Schiaparelli charged in London's Court of Appeals that he is under contract to her not to cut for a competitor until...
...cellar near Irkutsk made a find which brought Soviet archeologists on the run. In ground which they called 30,000 years old, they found the skeleton of a young child wearing a necklace of bone beads. From the necklace depended a small plaque apparently carved from a mammoth tusk and bearing the image of three entwined snakes. Nearby were bone weapons and 20 bone images of women, perhaps goddesses. Archeologists outside Russia doubted the antiquity of the deposit, principally because even the crudest bone weapons had not come to light before the late Paleolithic period...
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 at the White House, casually mentioned to President Coolidge that he had a sea elephant in the show. Mr. Coolidge nodded his head, went to see for himself. He discovered that the sea elephant is just an overgrown species of seal (Mirunga leoninus or patagonica), carnivorous, mammalian, with a flexible...
...long. Arched across its deck from stern to bow are two braced beams. They resemble sled runners. They really are runners, to enable the vessel to skid against the under side of polar ice. From the blunt, concrete-reinforced bow projects a long tubular feeler like the solitary tusk of the male narwhal. If under the dark ice the ship strikes an object (whale, rock, island, berg) which its great sub- aqueous searchlights do not disclose, the projecting feeler will ram back against compressed air and so absorb most of the shock. Since the boat will cruise at 3 knots...