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Tarzan
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  • When we slowed to a walk at the edge of the schoolyard, Jem was careful to explain that during school hours I was not to bother him, I was not to approach him with requests to enact a chapter of Tarzan and the Ant Men, to embarrass him with references to his private life, or tag along behind him at recess and noon.  (source)
    Tarzan = fictional character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs in his novel, Tarzan of the Apes and used in numerous sequels, films, and television series; a baby boy raised by apes and growing up a heroic jungle adventurer (1912)
  • He also loved Tarzan, a movie so popular that it had to be shown for several weeks in a row.†  (source)
    Tarzan = fictional character raised by apes who grew up a heroic jungle adventurer
  • Michael gets a notion in his head that this is Africa and keeps asking, Where's Tarzan?†  (source)
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  • I thought she was swinging, like Tarzan from a vine, on the TV.†  (source)
    Tarzan = fictional character raised by apes who grew up a heroic jungle adventurer
  • Owen was also critical of Tarzan movies.†  (source)
  • He only wore a piece of cloth around his middle, like Tarzan, so we could see his hairy legs and belly and back and arms.†  (source)
  • I wasn't Tarzan.†  (source)
  • His eyes were dark and a little ferocious when he wasn't smiling—kind of a Tarzan look, if Tarzan came in extra-small Latino.†  (source)
  • This is the tree we chose for the First Annual Tarzan Jumping Contest.†  (source)
  • With a wild hollering yodeling sound, like Johnny Weissmuller's Tarzan, he picked up the clerk from behind in a bear hug, lifting him eighteen inches clear of the ground, and shook the terrified creature from side to side.†  (source)
  • Tarzan was their favorite comic.†  (source)
  • It kind of makes him look like Tarzan, don't you think?†  (source)
  • And he started calling elephants like Tarzan does in the movie, "Aghhh-uhhhh-uhhhh-uhhhhhhh-hh—"†  (source)
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