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...species in that large order of mammals, the rodents, you could have selected an animal that would have fitted in with a precise description of Feuchtwanger's singularly rodent-like physiognomy - and yet would have carried with it not quite so nasty a connotation. Perhaps a fat-cheeked squirrel or beaver might have done just as well...
...reflection on Author Feuchtwanger's character, TIME'S description traced a resemblance, intended no insult. Let it be beaver or squirrel for those who prefer...
...offered a Central Park squirrel 5? to buy peanuts with...
...pull our legs at peace conferences, do us in the eye in disarmament treaties and help Europe cheat us out of War Debt billions; they can call us dollar-chasers, jazz maniacs and Prohibition hypocrites, but they can't call our robin not a robin and our grey squirrel...
...called the American Museum of Natural History, learned that both U. S. & British squirrels belong to the Sciuridae family, but that whereas the grey U. S. squirrel is known scientifically as Schirus carolinensis, England's red squirrel is called by the unflattering name of Sciurns vulgaris. English robins, like U. S. robins, belong to the family of thrushes (Turdidae). "So," concluded the Sun, "American robins are American robins; English robins are English robins; squirrels are squirrels; rats are rats, and pigs is pigs, although English bacon is not American bacon...