Word: opossum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intention to join Congress in sitting on the Tariff. Last act of Mr. Hoover before leaving his camp was to invite Mr. Burraker to visit him. Last month freckled, tatter- demalion, 14-year-old Ray (William McKinley) Burraker tiptoed into the camp carrying a pet opossum to his President. As a special treat, the President introduced his benefactor to a tall curly-haired man. Ray was not impressed?he had never heard of Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Last week Pa Burraker and President Hoover settled down in a couple of chairs under the trees. The President said that...
...Hoovers moved into the White House, the East Room was wired for talking cinema. Two nights a week sound pictures are shown there. President Hoover does not care much for "talkies" -"They demand too close attention." ¶ Last week Billy returned to the White House. Billy is the Hoover opossum. In the spring the President lent Billy to the Hyattsville (Md.) High School as a mas cot. Hyattsville, thanks to Billy, won the county championships in soccer, basket ball, track, baseball. Wrote President Hoover to the school borrowers: "I am glad to have your report on the efficiency of Billy...
...marsupial is an animal with a pouch for carrying young-opossum, kangaroo, wombat...
...TIME, July 5) announced that a wolf-spider had been taken, so enormous that it could capture and devour small birds. The hunters, of whom Mrs. Field was not least active and able, had also taken glass snakes (lizards with rudimentary feet); millipedes; and a rare species of mouse opossum, tiny marsupial (pouched mammal) only 5 in. long when mature...
...musical instrument; if in a ball game, the pitcher should "walk" him, it would take long for him to get to first base; but he is paid money, this dilapidated curmudgeon, for one distinguishing asset-the length of his nose. He smells news as a hound smells an opossum. He drew a circle in red crayon around the advertisement of Mr. Slack, threw it in a basket, sent it to the City Editor, who handed it to a Bright Young Reporter. To Stamford, Conn., hastened the B. Y. R. His nostrils quivered also. Headmaster Slack was the opossum. Next...