Word: pachyderm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francisco News (Scripps-Howard), Cartoonist Douglas Rodger used the biggest political news of the week to make a bum out of the G. O. Pachyderm (see cut), captioned it "Memories...
Fortnight ago, the small-time circus of onetime cinema Cowboy Jack Hoxie. played Independence, Mo. Among the menagerie was a 57-year-old female performing elephant named Mena, ballyhooed as the "Largest Female Pachyderm in Captivity." Cowboy Hoxie decided that Mena, her trainer, and his pinto pony were costing too much money. He gave Trainer Cooper $10 and proceeded on his way. The $10 bought elephant, horse and man one meal. Ingenious Trainer Cooper decided to start a circus of his own, set up on a vacant lot on U. S. Route 24, put Mena through her paces. Townspeople brought...
...Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows, millions gawked at her and fed her peanuts. Always leader of the parade, Babe was the unquestioned monarch of the elephant picket line. But three years ago General Director William M. Mann of the National Zoological Park persuaded the Ringlings to retire Babe to his pachyderm house. Besides plain old age, she was afflicted with an ingrown toenail, bad teeth. Even so she became the prize exhibit of the Washington Zoo. Younger, stronger elephants soon discovered she had brought her ruling manner with her. Her stanchest admirers were the President's grandchildren, Sistie and Buzzie...
...These are the Smithsonian's private finances. Although last week's report complained again & again of insufficient Federal aid, the year's appropriations for the National Museum were $716,000, up $61,000 from the preceding year. In addition, PWA allotted $680,000 to build a pachyderm house, an addition to the bird house and a house for small mammals for the zoo in Rock Creek Park...
Jimmy Durante, the man with no inhibitions, who is constantly searching among Jumbo's scores of females to find one who is not "face-crazy." Mr. Durante's big moment comes when he leads out the show's one elephant, points to the pachyderm's snout and then to his own, exclaims, "Me and him's related!" then suddenly finds that his relative has rolled over...