Word: bullfrog
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...little man. But he had the voice of a brass trumpet blaring venom and racism. "I call upon every red-blooded white man to use any means to keep the nigger away from the polls," he had screamed. He had a name that sounded like the chugging of a bullfrog: Bilbo...
...bayou bullfrog, Mississippi's Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo hopped on the Senate floor...
...Calif. almost all Legislatures had passed resolutions in favor of doing their work speedily and going home. Last week the Indianapolis News heaped scorn on the Indiana Legislature: "With utter fearlessness the Legislature at last is getting around to the business of doing something final and remedial about the bullfrog crisis. In the process of enactment also are war measures dealing with the mussel, the raccoon and the migratory tomcat...
...drone of airplanes, the crash of thunder and squirpling crickets are to summer concerts. Most audiences and musicians have learned to take such incidental orchestration in their stride. But at Vancouver B.C.'s open-air pavilion, Baritone John Charles Thomas encountered one alfresco sound too many-a persistent bullfrog in a nearby pond. Every time Baritone Thomas began to sing, the bullfrog answered. Thomas hit a low note, the bullfrog followed him. At last Thomas was about ready to holler "Uncle." Before he began his next song, a beater was delegated to quell the disturber. Thomas lifted...
Your delightful Americanese and your innocence of the facts are indeed very amusing and I must say that I enjoyed, after all, your article on Mussolini entitled "Imperial Bullfrog" which is such a remarkable contribution to the widespread political illiteracy of the American people on foreign affairs...