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Word: blockadedâ (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1932-1932
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...last the suffering populace could stand it no longer, began to advance on the White House. Blockaded??? the Presi dent and his family lived on tinned beef and dried apricots until, at the crucial moment, Julius, the missing Secretary, re appeared. He brought with him Man- That-Jumps-Like-a-Flea, an Osage Indian who was to save them all. The complaint of the raging mob outside was that Throttlebottom, the Vice President, had not a Constitutional amount of Indian blood. A transfusion appeased the mob and the day was saved. Ex-President Wintergreen concludes: "I had done my duty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Anarch Monarch | 5/23/1932 | See Source »

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