Word: badger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beyond the walls. But the tune that dampened the eyes of Warden Herbert ("Cap") Smith and beefy Deputy Tom Meikrantz was a Chinese prisoner's song, written and sung in quavery, North China dialect by Canton-born William Yun. (Yun was jailed six weeks ago for working the badger game on a wealthy countryman named...
...Theodore Badger, President of the New England Grenfell Association. Ray Dennett of Phillips Brooks House, and several "wops"--With-Out-Pay workers--will attend a dinner given for Grenfell and his daughter this evening at the Faculty Club...
...liners jampacked with homing American tourists (see p. 40); in Europe every American consulate, ministry, embassy swarmed with visa-waving U. S. citizens keen for a sight of Staten Island; at Villefranche, France, floated the U. S. Navy's Squadron 40-T, (the light cruiser Trenton, old destroyers Badger and Paul Jones) their steam up to haul U. S. nationals to embarkation points...
...Newcastle, England, an importunate salesman sold Mrs. E. Renwick a refrigerator, had the law on her when she was unable to pay the installments. Snorted the indignant judge: "The only way to treat people who badger for sales is to take them by the scruff of the neck and kick them as hard as possible on the soft part of their anatomy." Verdict: Mrs. Renwick can have 2,160 years...
...education is to put the Wart through more metamorphoses than a moth ever dreamed of. Ffft! The Wart is a fish, learning self-preservation from a tench and a pike. Presto! He is a hawk, learning bravery. He becomes a snake, learning 20th-century theories of evolution, a badger, learning about adaptation, an owl, learning how trees and stones talk (so slowly that they could be heard only if time passed at the rate of 30 years per minute...