Word: guinea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...future. First, the Parcel Post handled eggs, then eggs hatched in the form of chickens, then these chickens grown up to fully developed hens and roosters of unlimited lung power,--and now alligators. The process of evolution still remains unchecked. If alligators have any of the qualifications of guinea pigs, it would be well for the Postal Authorities to profit by the sufferings of that valiant official of the sister service, the express,--Mr. O'Flaherty of "Pigs is Pigs...
...appeal to him, he can make a great hit with the French public, who never tire of Wild West films, by donning his official Indian regalia and assuming the role of Watakpech Wakiya, the title the Sioux have bestowed on him. If he chooses to found a menagerie, his guinea-pig and wildcat will make a suitable beginning; but no doubt the jewelry business would prove still more profitable...
...increase in strikes, however, is slightly more serious in its consequences than the increase in guinea pigs, for now we read that America is to be strangled by a general railway strike. Something must be done and done quickly. It is time for constructive, forceful, and yet liberal action...
...Ellis Parker Butler were writing "Pigs is Pigs" today, shrewd literary critics would most certainly declare his story to be an allegory characterizing America as the perplexed express-man and strikes as the guinea pigs, multiplying in geometrical progression...