Word: mice
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hotelkeepers do not admire mice...
From his sufficiently regal abode, the Belvedere Palace, Pilsudski decided to amuse himself a little longer by playing cat and mice with the disorganized and virtually impotent Sejm (Parliament...
...reading of whatever proclamations he may send to them. The Deputies immediately expressed indignation, and indicated their refusal to ratify the decree unless Marshal Pilsudski would agree to come and read his own proclamation standing before them. Tiger cat Pilsudski, no doubt secretly intrigued by the defiance of his mice, turned the incident into high comedy by commanding the First Lancers Regiment to march twice around the Parliament Building in full war regalia. Having thus shown his physical encirclement of and contempt for the parliamentarians Pilsudski called off his troops, last week, retired into his palace, brooded upon whether...
...years I have been trying to have the Government subsidize opera in this country. What has it subsidized instead? Mechanical inventions! The next time the Government will subsidize toy balloons and mechanical mice to amuse children further...
...what age did Mouse-Breeder Brooks's mice become bald...