Word: hyena
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Beard published his Economic Interpretation of the Constitution. Probably the dullest book of sensational history ever written, it infuriated conservative historians and editors by documenting the shocking lucidity with which the Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution in their own economic interest. Newspapers screamed that Beard was a "hyena." Ex-President Taft (whom Beard calls his heaviest critic-"by tonnage") damned it in a special speech. High schools banned the book; public libraries put it on the restricted shelf. Nicholas Murray Butler sputtered that his derelict professor of politics was aping "the crude, immoral and unhistorical teaching of Karl Marx." Charles...
...press than any other member of the Cabinet. The Secretary of the Interior's lineage took another bound as a result of his remarks. Next day Columnist Johnson cracked: "The Ick . . . is about as fair as Caiaphas, as objective as a fishwife and as courteous as a hyena. He said in his speech that he wishes I didn't love him so much. Why, gosh-darn it, I just can't help loving a man like that...
...records Koch needed patience, ingenuity and a complicated apparatus. For a year an enormous van had to be moved back & forth between two big British zoos to catch the llama's hollow mating cry, the spotted hyena's angry laugh, the binturong's exhibitionist catcall. Koch spent some sleepless nights...
Through Chicago streets into sheds in his South Side lumberyard Mr. Meitus proudly led a nervous procession of 9 monkeys, 6 horses, 5 trainers (whom he had put on his payroll), 5 ponies, 4 great Danes, 3 lions, 2 elephants, 2 deer, a leopard, a tiger, a hyena and a baboon. He put his 75 employees to work setting up the big top in a vacant lot next door, invited 10,000 poor children to come as his guests for "hot dogs, pink lemonade, popcorn and everything else that goes with a circus." Three extra platforms...
...Banker J. P. Morgan & friends, pay off its employes, print its record. Not a single Senator opposed this graceful fadeout. Senator Connally temperately limited himself to declaiming: "The burglar who breaks into a house at night doesn't believe in private rights or security. The jackal or the hyena that invades a cemetery to fatten its own body by digging up the dead does not believe in the sanctity of the tomb. . . . Let [the Nye committee] come out of the cemeteries and catacombs and get out in the daylight...