Word: possum
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There is perhaps no comic strip that has so rapidly won its way into the hearts of the American people and into the pages of their newspapers as Pogo. The puny possum and his partner sin mirth poke fun at every subject from atom bombs to truant officers with corn and candor...
...Brought to Manhattan by the Museum of Natural History to pose for its diorama of a Southern pine forest, Willie Williams, 63-year-old scout and gamekeeper on South Carolina's Possum Corner Plantation, stuck it out for two days and then declared he had to get back to his game preserve. "Chewing tobacco is my main satisfaction," he explained, "and that's why I have to get out of New York City. No place to spit." ¶ After serving nine months as district director of the Office of Price Stabilization in Baltimore, Hugo R. Hoffman...
Fuss & Feathers. Pogoland's characters are talking animals who live in the Okefenokee Swamp and call themselves "nature's screetures." Pogo himself is a wide-eyed, naive little possum, and his pals include a raffish, cigar-smoking alligator named Albert; Porky Pine, a gloomy realist; Churchy LaFemme, a turtle and a reformed pirate captain; Rowland Owl, a nearsighted, pseudo-scientist who once tried to invent an "Adam Bomb"; a prideful hound named Beauregard Bugleboy; and a fantastic menagerie of feathered, furry swamp characters. Together they romp and fuss, conversing in a vaguely Southern dialect that drips with puns...
...friends (who call him Tom or "Old Possum"), T. S. Eliot is a considerate, avuncular Puck who writes rhymes about cats to entertain their children and likes to address letters in verse ("Postman, propel thy feet/And take this note to greet / The Mrs. Hutchinson / Who lives in Charlotte Street . . ."). Eliot is a devoted Sherlock Holmes fan, is apt to emerge from his room clad in Holmesian dressing gown and slippers, and address his startled friend: "My dear Hayward, I am put in-mind of the incident in Bosnia, at the time of our struggle with the Professor over the Crown...
Wisconsin's Republican Senator Joe McCarthy hoped aloud that perjury charges would be brought against John as soon as the subcommittee's hearings ended. It looked as though John had played possum once too often...