Word: pets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mississippi's crusty Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo cooked his own breakfast, gave listeners his pet recipes, then said: "I want a woman." Herson coughed, changed the subject...
...feelings about Prohibition (he likes liquor as much as he likes crap games) with an angry drawing of the Statue of Liberty taking a nosedive into the Atlantic. He illustrated the current housing shortage by drawing a dilapidated auto with a "No Vacancies" sign (see cut). Other pet Fitz targets: fascism, union haters, public utility holding companies, politicians (usually depicted as bigmouthed, potbellied, loafers...
...when he saw it, ordered the doll burned or thrown away. As a rule, Mrs. O'Reilly, the cook, did what she was told, but this was such a nice, harmless little doll. "Oh, lovely, darling," she had said, giving it to Monica, "ain't it a pet...
None of the audience saw the bird when it left the stage of the Colonial, so that several Poonmen who rushed up several minutes later were unable to trace their pet. Baffled, they returned to their lair to await further developments...
...family residing at 57 Mt. Auburn Street reported last night that their pet bird had flown the coop. They maintain that it flew into the arms of hooded abductors who cried, "An Ibis for an Ibis!" The bird answers to "Thresky" and will eat only pumpkin seeds...