Word: habitat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most familiar habitat of the Hokinson girl was the club meeting, with Madam President on the rostrum (see cut), perhaps telling the girls: "The treasurer wants me to announce that unless some of the members pay their back dues, she will simply lose her mind." In Miss Hokinson's own favorite cartoon, her heroine was telephoning home from the police station with a contrite bulletin: "Albert, I did something wrong on the George Washington Bridge...
Small-boy admirers of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History sometimes call it "the dead zoo." Parents, too, gape and gawk at the floodlit glass cases which the museum describes as its "natural habitat groups." In the shadowy "North American Mammals" wing are windows overlooking a family of grizzly bears dining on ants in Yellowstone National Park, wolves loping after a deer by the glow of northern lights, bull moose fighting in a marsh, and Rocky Mountain goats scrambling sky-high along a cliff...
...their findings were negative. Both plants and animals have come back with a rush to the atom-blasted area. The crater itself is thick with tumbleweeds and lively grasshoppers. There are rattlesnakes, lizards, pack rats and mice in the vicinity-none of them, apparently, the worse for their hot habitat. A cottontail rabbit has a home in the crater itself. The antelope (which local stories said had been frightened into Mexico) are back in the great arid valley...
...quiet way, our visitor clutches his ribs in glee when he thinks of what the ASPCA said about the "balance of nature." The natural habitat of the bird owl is the Harvard Yard, and to take him away for a winter in the suburbs would upset a delicate scale. Then he puts his foot in his mouth and chokes with mirth when he things of those pigeons and squirrels...
Perpetual Fogs. Macdonald has a few pages of fun with "Wallese," the language spoken in "Wallaceland . . . the mental habitat of Henry Wallace plus a few hundred thousand regular readers of the New Republic, the Nation and PM. It is a region of perpetual fogs, caused by the warm winds of the liberal Gulf Stream coming in contact with the Soviet glacier." Wallace is loaded with "ritualistic adjectives" like "forward-looking," "freedom-loving," "clear-thinking." Such lingo, delivered with the "expansiveness of a Messiah," is just what it takes to make his followers accept Wallace "on his own valuation...