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Word: angleworm (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Holiday at Home | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Taleteller | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

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