Word: rabbited
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Technically, it is built in the style of the "Peter Rabbit" series-a few lines or print hand in hand with an illustration on every page. Both prose and pictures are good, for, though not always exceptionally funny, they-catch very well indeed the spirit which they are meant to give. And, what is more, they are of the sort that stick in the reader's memory long after he has put the book aside. The 'Friday Evening", for example, or the single meal at Memorial Hall, might easily become historic. Nor do I think that anyone at all acquainted...
...Royal Albert Edward Infirmary in England, has completed a careful study of the way in which eruptions on the skin are caused by poorly 'dyed furs. In the fur business it is necessary to dye fitch to represent sable, goat for bear, muskrat for seal, nutria for beaver, rabbit for seal, beaver, otter, mole, chinchilla or sable, and house cat for skunk or sable. The substance of importance in the process of dying is paraphenylendiamin, which is also the basis of most dyes for human hair that are now on the market. When oxidized this becomes quinone, which...
...President Coolidge a chance to put his arm there instead. . . . President Coolidge made a nice speech and talked more about Magnus Johnson than anything or anyone else. He even told a story that apparently has only just reached Massachusetts, but is old in Alaska and the Philippines, about the rabbit pie. The man admitted that he put some horse meat in the rabbit pie, and said it was 'fifty-fifty'-one rabbit to one horse. The President assured Magnus Johnson that he would have a fifty-fifty chance at Washington, 'even if I have...
...Interstate Commerce Committee (see page 3) : "This bird from Maryland flopped when all that was needed to elect Smith was his vote. . . . The promise of the average politician who uses fine words in order to pull the wool over the eyes of the people is like a rabbit sausage. Fifty-fifty- one horse and one rabbit. The people get the rabbit and the great corporations get the horse...
...alliance of a rabbit and a horse...