Word: squirrels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Libretto. L'Enfant, a favored one, constantly companioned by such birds and beasts as cats, bats, dragonflies and a squirrel, is untransfigured by the gentleness that attends his living, hut ridden with black bile and curious humors. Does he learn his lessons? Far from it; this enfant, is idle and, when his Hainan reproves him for his lassitude, assuredly with justice, ho surrenders himself to rancor, beating the floor with his heels, chasing the cats, the squirrel and committing many acts of violence. Then it is that he hears the old clock sing, with much clucking of the tongue...
...into a dark valley. The moon lifts the white of an eye over a cloud, but lightless in the glade he wanders; the forest talks to him in many voices; night presses her hands over his eyes. Ever lie hear.; in his heart the voice of the once happy squirrel, reproaching him for the hurt he did her furry side, her tender paw, and he weeps with regret in the sullen copice, uncomforted. The squirrel, unable to support any longer the pain of her wound, falls swooning at his feet. He picks her up. He bandages with fumbling care...
...Coolidge cat, scratched by an embattled squirrel on the White House lawn, was a patient at the Walter Reed Hospital. Rob Roy, Mrs. Coolidge's white collie, was sent to the same hospital for skin treatment...
...motor industry, generally speaking, is in the position of a squirrel in a cage. So far as profits go?it is very active but dubiously profitable. Production of cars proceeds at a good rate, but competition has so reduced retail prices that there is little satisfaction...
...Goodie", seeing a mouse in a dormitory fireplace, should climb upon a cane-seated chair, with a resulting sudden descent and sprained ankle, would the University be liable for damages? If a Yard man-with-a-hoe should fall while pursuing a Yard squirrel, would the University be obliged to pay his doctor's-bills? If one is to judge by cases cited in a recent report of the Labor Board, the answer of both these questions is; Yes. The array of problems that have recently come up for its consideration are a reductio ad absurdum of the compensation...