Word: litters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...where the civilian army encamped. In the Swiss Cottage tube station Londoners who now sleep there nightly on payment of the usual subway fee of three ha'pence (about 3?) last week began turning out their own typed news sheet, The Swiss Cottager. "There's too much litter at the all clear," said The Cottager. "Dustbins are provided! Please heed this request-our last and only territorial demand...
London's animals lived as the people lived. Dogs & cats slept in shelters with their masters. Women rescued pups & kittens from bomb holes. A litter of rabbits was born in one hole, in the shadow of a delayed-action bomb. Many wild birds were killed. On one balcony were found a score of dead sparrows, huddled together with two mice in their midst...
...blown out of his bed into his garden, where he landed unhurt beside a bitch licking her litter...
Last week Willie Seabrook, 54, announced: "I have outgrown . . . the attitude of willing and romantic wonder which characterized some of my earlier books." Between the covers of Witchcraft he has swept the years' litter of a disordered desk: a theory, anecdotes, old magazine articles, scraps from history, leftover items from former books, newspaper clippings, remarks on extrasensory perception-everything, in fact, but his blotter and pencils...
...Champion Blakeen Jung Frau, Mrs. Sherman R. Hoyt's white poodle: best-in-show, at the Morris & Essex dog show, Madison, N. J.; from 4,090 competitors, after brief retirement from show business to bear a litter of puppies...