Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pelorus Jack lived in Pelorus Sound, New Zealand. So great was his fame he is mentioned in Encyclopedia Britannica, which calls him "an individual . . . believed to have belonged to" the Grampus griseus species, Risso's dolphin...
Owner of Phar Lap, David J. Davis of San Francisco, who had leased the horse to Harry R. Telford of Melbourne for four years, said that Phar Lap was not insured. He planned to have the handsome hide mounted, sent to New Zealand, the heart sent to an anatomical museum in Melbourne...
...Phar Lap was shipped from England to Australia in 1927, he was sold at auction for $800. In 51 starts in the next four years he won 37 races, finished second thrice. Australians considered him the greatest racehorse in the world. Last winter with five attendants and enough New Zealand oats to last three months, Phar Lap crossed the Pacific for American conquests. His easy victory at Agua Caliente dispelled all doubt that his presence would make 1932 a great U. S. turf year...
Australia then issued an even stronger statement, which it sent not to London as did polite New Zealand, but direct to Dublin. It was the first major protest in history from one Dominion to another. Ominously Australia hinted that, should the Free State cut loose, Irishmen would become alien not only in Britain but in all the Dominions...
...Palace spokesman recently, "the artist of the Royal Family. He plays various instruments and improvises even better than the Prince of Wales." Three, even two years ago Palace spokesmen were saying that King George was grooming Prince George to become the Governor General of a Dominion; they hinted New Zealand...