Word: glinting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Remus' Br'er Rabbit and her chief. It was the play of wits between Br'er Rabbit and the enemies that sought to corner him that made the secretary think of the mental adroitness of Samuel Gompers in a similar situation. She found the rabbit "human looking, with a glint of knowingness in his eye, an all-pervading air of goodwill, an absence of bitterness in his make-up." So she purchased the cotton rabbit and presented it to Mr. Gompers. And " Br'er " has sat ever since as mascot on the labor leader's desk, has accompanied...