Word: angleworm
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...stood listening to the roar of the crowd's applause. Vice President Alben Barkley was inspired to a stirring attack on Republicans. Challenging the G.O.P.'s new campaign slogan, he cried: "Will those people who see in every tree frog a roaring lion, and in every angleworm a spreading adder, please rise and tell us what is statism...
...Northwest papers, James once did a piece about Carroll Kjellman, Rochester citizen who said he had seen a robin tugging at a worm in the ground. The worm stretched until it snapped out of the earth, knocked the robin cold. Wrote Dave James: "Faced by a committee of angleworm lovers, Carroll Kjellman ... admitted he planted strips of rubber in the soil. . . . 'I'm sorry I caused the robin to be knocked out . . .' Kjellman said...
...regain the championship for his alma mater, Harvard's Irving Clark Jr. four days later polished off 24, sucking at an orange after each one. He also offered to eat a bug for a nickel, an angleworm for a dime and a beetle for a quarter...
...Columbia's fat and famed Thorndike asked me my price for spitting on a picture of Washington or for eating an angleworm I wouldn't give the silly answer the question deserved but would call for a paddy wagon...
...conversational medicine ball had been thrown back and forth enough this Sunday morning, we decided to put the question of the price for eating an earthworm to the test. Upshot: a friend of mine (incidentally a Harvard student-perhaps that explains it) totally consumed a fairly good-sized angleworm for the small fee of 25?. We concluded that Dr. Thorndike's price of $100 was a little high. Would he be interested...