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...Cheeked Rat...
Under Books in your March 19 issue of TIME, you show a photograph of Lion Feuchtwanger, and I failed to see any resemblance to a "fat-cheeked rat," although I do not propose to vie with any member of TIME'S staff to detect a resemblance of a horseface, frog-face, pig-face, or fat-cheeked-rat"-face in man. If you really meant by this statement that his character was ratlike, why not be honest about...
...suppose that President Roosevelt, not that I make any comparison, looked like Mr. Feuchtwanger, would you describe him as looking like a "fat-cheeked rat," or if your editor . . . looked like Mr. Feuchtwanger, would you "describe him as looking like a "fat-cheeked rodent...
Your short, concise and sharp descriptions always seem to fit the individual, but in this particular case neither I nor any of the friends that I have shown this picture to can find any resemblance to a "fat-cheeked rat...
...quote from your issue of March 19: "Nervous, twitchetty, bespectacled, he has a big nose, prominent mouth, receding chin, looks like a fat-cheeked rat...