Word: gopher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gopher Holes. Gus is unmarried. "Last time I asked a girl to be my wife, she said, 'Can I get down that mountain to see a show every night?' When I said no, she said 'No.' " His office is in a corner of the depot. Gus explained: "I've got a table and two chairs. Nothing to lock up except the cash drawer, and I wouldn't do that except you're supposed to." During the war, though, Marshall Pass had a brush with the enemy. Said Gus: "I don't like...
...week's end, Gus headed back to Marshall Pass. He hadn't thought much of New York. "Them subway entrances. They're like gopher holes." He had not thought much of New York's "young ones." Said Gus: "They all look like they wanted to go to a picture show day and night. They don't look tough enough to go huntin...
...ranged from the Kaffir Boys' Choir to a course on the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, from the measured comments of Viscount Bryce to the soaring platitudes of William Jennings Bryan. Carol Kennicott, the stifled and discontented heroine of Sinclair Lewis' Main Street, went to Chautauqua in Gopher Prairie and "was impressed by the audience: the sallow women in skirts and blouses, eager to be made to think, the men in vests and shirtsleeves, eager to be allowed to laugh, and the wriggling children, eager to sneak away...
References. In Great Falls, Mont., Tobie Desjarlais was jailed for beating his wife after the disappearance of his character witness-one Pete Gopher, wanted for wife-beating himself...
Also in progress in the laboratory in a study of animal instincts, with pack rats and hamsters, a Near East relative of the gopher, as chief subjects. Answers are being sought to such questions as why do rats form packs, why do they heard and transport miscellaneous small objects, and why do some animals build houses...