Word: badgers
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...Newark manufacturer announced a handcarved, gold-handled, genuine badger-haired shaving brush "for the best-kept man." Cost $3,350, tax included...
Commander of the first invasion force was spare, deep-voiced Rear Admiral Oscar C. Badger. Badger had been the first U.S. officer ashore when the Navy went into Tokyo Bay in 1923 to relieve earthquake victims. Now, with his flag on the San Diego, he led Task Force 31, with 10,000 sailors and marines, through the narrows into Tokyo...
...first really effective use of internal monologue. At worst, he goes so far with the trick of building intensity through reiteration that it recalls Fred Allen's parody of Norman Corwin: a poetic drama about Jack & Jill in which a cheering section of inner voices, in accelerating crescendo, badger the heroine with "Jill Jacobowsky, Jill-Jacobowsky Jill-Jacobowsky JILL-JACOBOWSKY...
...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...
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...