Word: badgering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wreckage. Japan is a nation of small things, small men (who before the war outnumbered the small women), tiny trees, narrow roads, minuscule farms, large cruelties and small, delicate graces. Small animals are popular. The bear is regarded with disinterest, but to the fox and the badger the Japanese attribute supernatural powers...
...prophetic hero sails northward to buy wooded Manhattan Island from Indian Chieftain Badger (Anthony Quinn), originator of the Badger Game, for the customary price. Then he plunks forward a hundred years or so into the middle of Knickerbocker Holiday minus Peter Stuyvesant, again meets and at last appreciates Miss Leslie. She gets him talking hindside-to Dutch dialect so automatically that, jailed, he sings An Angel If I Had the Wings Of. When at length the genie gets control of his defective time machine, he restores the hero to the present, in the uniform he wanted all along...
Despite many contrary opinions, Reynard still plainly considers himself as a much put-upon individual, "as faultless as a newborn infant ... a man of piety and a pillar of religion." As Grimbart the Badger, his long-suffering nephew, often pointed out, Reynard was frequently to be found at his devotions...
...whose satirist's stock in trade is cartoons and essays on inhibited males and uninhibited females, received proposals of marriage from two Smith College seniors. They wrote "the funniest man in the world" that if he was not available they would like to marry his sons. Grey-haired, badger-faced Humorist Thurber, 50, wrote back: "I always reply ... to girls who want to marry me or my sons. Unhappily . . . I am married and am much too old for you anyway. My only child is a daughter of 14. She lives in, of all places, Amherst. No doubt the boys...
...such artist was known simply as McKay; he was a late-18th-Century itinerant painter whose Mrs. John Bush (see cut) was a clean, crackling portrait presenting the sitter with all the harsh candor of a snapshot. Another was Joseph Badger, Boston's outstanding portraitist from 1748 to 1758 (Copley superseded him). Badger's Mrs. John Edwards (see cut) made no attempt to impress anyone with the subject's elegance. Neither did Henry Gibbs (see cut), probably the work of one of the itinerant artists who traveled the countryside, sometimes carrying portraits prepainted except for faces...