Word: rodents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dark and cheerless atmosphere of Memorial Hall shadowy figures, handling sinister revolvers will be observed by the inquisitive rodent inhabitants of the building...
...suppose that President Roosevelt, not that I make any comparison, looked like Mr. Feuchtwanger, would you describe him as looking like a "fat-cheeked rat," or if your editor . . . looked like Mr. Feuchtwanger, would you "describe him as looking like a "fat-cheeked rodent...
...Author Lion Feuchtwanger looks like a fat-cheeked rat. Maybe he does. But surely, of all the numerous species in that large order of mammals, the rodents, you could have selected an animal that would have fitted in with a precise description of Feuchtwanger's singularly rodent-like physiognomy - and yet would have carried with it not quite so nasty a connotation. Perhaps a fat-cheeked squirrel or beaver might have done just as well...
...strange looking, 19-foot, rodent-like vehicle meandered up and down on Massachusetts Avenue in the neighborhood of the Square on Saturday morning. Curious onlookers were informed that the unique machine was a "dymaxion," the solid steel, berth-equipped automobile of the future...
...there must flow something more than a trace of rodent blood, exalts some who are weak and throws mud at some who are strong. ... All this is published by a dying newspaper, recently purchased at auction by an Old Dealer-a cold-blooded reactionary-who was one of the principal guides along the road to the disaster of 1929 [TIME, March 5]." Few anonymous commentators on the political scene have received better advertising out of Washington...