Word: hippopotamus
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What are George Washington's new false teeth made from? Hippopotamus tusks set in pink sealing...
...poetry--the broad-backed hippopotamus?" he asked his companions, a little quizzically. Then he proceeded to rattle off three or four stanzas: The broad-backed hippopotamus Rests on his belly in the mud; Although he seems so firm to us He is merely flesh and blood...
...certainly aren't likely to say it for less than the $25,000 an hour H.R. "Call me Bob" Haldeman will receive from CBS. So we can forget some of the current stars of the lecture circuit: John W. Dean III, Ronald L. "Over-There-Is-the-Hippopotamus" Ziegler, Bob-Woodward-and-Carl-Bernstein, and Rabbi Baruch Korff. And although Lieut. William L. "Rusty" Calley has now hit the lecture tour as well, even color-slides from Mylai would represent only a footnote to the history that Richardson in his pre-Watergate incarnation helped make...
...long been classified as a disease. The ancient Egyptians tried to cure it with the application of equal dollops of the fat of a lion, a hippopotamus, a crocodile and a serpent. "Ashes of little frogs, applyed suddenly, cureth the Fall of Hair," promised another early recipe. Through the receding centuries, man has tried to treat the bane of baldness with elm-tree bark, watercress, onions, creosote, cholesterol and cortisone...
Except for the rare and freakish abnormality, nature never violates the integrity of its forms. One cannot imagine, for example, nature grafting a giraffe's neck onto the body of a hippopotamus and topping it off with a chipmunk's head. Yet man, the born tinkerer, is forever fashioning hybrids out of his art forms. With reckless profusion, novels are turned into plays, plays into musicals, musicals into movies and vice versa. This is partly a matter of crass commerce, partly of dried-up imagination, and partly of pure madness...