Word: warthogs
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...witch doctor talked about charms and animal sacrifices, Davis' rich, deep Latin poured through the small window of the hut: "Pater noster qui es in coelis, sanctificetur nomen tuum . . ." The laibon explained the uses of animals in his work. He employed the warthog, for example, to cast a spell to keep the government out of Masai business. Good choice, the visitor thought. The warthog is a strutty little beast, a short-legged peasant with a thin tail that stands straight up like a flagpole when it runs. It backs into its hole and pulls dirt on top of itself...
...certain fascination in this game of clothing Mother Goose rhymes with flowing garments of Miltonian or Homeric majesty. Especially were we pleased with our results in the case of the Ode, the original of which we chanced upon in an old book called 'Seaside and Wayside, or How Jimmy Warthog Got Ilis Spots.' By the simple expedient of taking three paragraphs of this little work and leaving out every other line, changing all the e's and o's to a's and q's and substituting words like drizzle, infinite and wings, death and youth, for spring, sun, flowers...
...Power & the Glory, have been announced. During the manufacture of Zoo in Budapest, the Fox studio in Hollywood contained the third largest menagerie in the U. S. The animal most amenable to direction was the gibbon (Amos), who is accustomed to camera work. Most intractable was a supercilious warthog. In one scene a woman visitor complains about the smell of the animals. The wart-hog gives her a derisive sniff. Director Lee produced the proper expression by offering the wart-hog a carrot, substituting a piece of raw beef to make him disgusted...