Word: roost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bold as he is clever. He has influence and a following within the party not likely to be ignored. He will not permit it to be. . . . Republican leaders as a rule don't like Willkie. They never have. They mistrust him as another 'big cock of the roost,' stubbornly bent on having his own way, with contempt for all others whether of high degree or low, if you are not as smart as he is. But what to do about him? . . . Impossible to ignore Willkie; highly dangerous to defy him. For he is dynamite. Like Roosevelt...
Nostalgia has come home to roost on Broadway. For the fourth* time in nine months an oldtime Viennese-type operetta started packing in the customers. This time it was Franz Lehar's The Merry Widow...
...contribution today is limited for reasons which have become obvious to every Junior. This is "der Tag"-the day when all our omissions of the past are coming home to roost. It goes without saying that the situation is very grave...
...Over the White House the air was black with chickens coming home to roost...
After all is said & done, what American would want to think of our leader as a "Superman". . .? We'll be content to leave those attributes to comic strips and Der Führer. . . . Our President is a man, a mere mortal, whose "chickens come home to roost." We don't expect him to be infallible...