Word: pachyderm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Never rising above its environment, the Fred Rath and Lee Sands farce is about a couple of Coney Island tin-horns, Benny Baker and Sid Melton, who whitewash an elephant and pass him off, in the disapproved carnival style, as a sacred and genu-wine Indian white pachyderm. Things get more elaborate, but the plot is never much thicker than the coat of whitewash...
...once limp and drooping trunk now swayed with menacing promise. But the G.O.P. elephant mostly drowsed or shifted from foot to foot. Every time the Party seemed about to wake up, a red-faced, elderly mahout named Harrison Spangler tiptoed up and made quiet, shushing nursery-noises until the pachyderm was soothed and drowsy again...
...G.O.P. was not only a pachyderm but a power. Everywhere west of Manhattan's PM and the New York Post, more & more of the U.S. was becoming Republicanland. In the Solid South, hatred of the New Deal was bitterer than anywhere else. In 26 states Republican Governors administered the affairs of 66% of the U.S. people. Since 1938 more & more citizens in 38 states had consistently voted Republican...
...Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey circus made a deal with her: if Mrs. Robert appeared in one regular performance, the circus would give a benefit show for sick children. Game, Evie Robert dressed up as an Indian princess, timidly mounted, confidently squatted on the head of a much-enduring pachyderm...