Word: hippo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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George La Piana, professor of Church History will talk on Christianity at the beginning of the fifth century, and also on Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo...
...entering the cartoon published last month by the New York Herald Tribune, entitled "The Behemoths at Play." This cartoon showed a hippopotamus (General Motors Corp.) swallowing an elephant (U. S. Steel) which had by the tail a rhinoceros (E. I. du Pont de Nemours Corp.) which was swallowing the hippo...
...more-than-six-foot 200-pounder stood upon the stage of the Four Cohans' Theatre in Chicago last week. His paunch heaved like a vexed hippo's, his ham of a hand smote the air, his flabby face howled. Technically, he was no vaudeville actor; he was William Hale Thompson, candidate for Mayor of Chicago. Yelled he: "I wanta make the King of England keep his blasted snoot out of America. . . . This is the issue of the campaign [he draped the Stars and Stripes over his arm]. What was good enough for Washington is good enough...
...Augustine of Hippo...