Word: squirrels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Premier of Czechoslovakia has been for many years a man whose name few European statesmen ever bother to remember, they never can get out of their minds Dr. Eduard Benes, quick as a squirrel, lucid as crystal, clever as the Devil, virtuous as the League of Nations and famed as "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman...
...Yankees," who left three sabre slashes in his side. His daughters had been starved out of their birthplace only when nothing remained to eat except the dog. When his daughters and grandchildren finally revolt against wage cuts in the mill, Grandpappy supplies comic relief with his truculent ways and squirrel rifle. And when the best of his brood is finally pinked on the picket line. Grandpappy sings a hillbilly hymn of hate at the big funeral scene...
...thin, dark-eyed daughter of Lady Bessborough, fell in love with him. Although a great many noble ladies felt the same passion, "Lady Caro," who was also affectionately called "Ariel," "Savage," & "Squirrel," outdid them all. She disguised herself as a page in order to get into Byron's rooms, waited in the street while he attended parties to which she had not been invited, tried to stab herself when he spoke crossly to her, forged his handwriting to get his picture from his publisher. Driven to distraction by her, Byron found companionship with her mother-in-law, Lady Melbourne...
...Roosevelt, in a radio broadcast, of her troubles in keeping the White House: "Pipes will leak at frequent intervals and rats and mice like old buildings, regardless of tradition. Two friends of mine, sitting on the South Porch at breakfast one summer morning, tried to reassure themselves that a squirrel ran across the floor and refused to admit until they were safely upstairs that they had seen a large...
Even as Father Coughlin spoke the telegrams were flooding into Washington. Messengers carted them by wheelbarrow loads to the Senate Office Building. Pennsylvania's Davis and Guffey were enjoined to vote against the Court by the Squirrel Hill Station, Pa. Sunday School. As the flood mounted Western Union was forced to hire 35 extra clerks, Postal Telegraph...