Word: scampered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mouse Queen Blowers' mice do not scamper madly around her drawing room. They live in nesting boxes-from three to seven in each-stacked in tiers in little huts which hold some 2,000 mice each. Daily they are fed a teaspoonful of oats, alternated with a little stale bread soaked in milk. Mating, classification, feeding, selection for marketing, is a fulltime job for Mrs. Blowers and two assistants. Her mousery produces an average of 1,000 mice a week. Prices range from $1.50 a dozen for mice for experimental laboratories, to $5 to $7.50 each for the best...
...censorship breaks down and headlines scream, frantically milling crowds, for the first time since the Armistice, buy London papers so fast that presses whirling at top speed cannot meet the demand. In the House of Commons lobbies, politicians think the public reaction is hostile to the King and scamper for the Baldwin bandwagon. "I was for the King when it was purely a question whether he should be permitted to marry whomsoever he should choose," says beetling-browed Labor Radical James Maxton, "but when it is a dispute between him and the Government, I cast my lot with the Government...
...would like to ask horn-hating Cecil P. Brown if he has ever turned a corner to find his way completely blocked by playing children. Or has he come upon unmindful chickens or dogs, which I find usually respond to a horn's blast and scamper aside to safety...
Stalled for the first half, Minnesota's steamroller started rolling in the second. A homecoming crowd of 59,000 at Minneapolis saw Pug Lund spiral passes that averaged 44 yd., Stan Kostka batter Michigan's line to bits, Julius Alfonse scamper 76 yd. to a touchdown. Minnesota 34, Michigan...
...SCAMPER: The Bunny Who Went to the White House-Anna Roosevelt Dall- Macmillan ($2). Babs and Dave booed a Presidential conference into silence to introduce to Grandfather a red-painted, white-coated, blue-collared rabbit named Scamper. "Welcome to the White House," said Grandfather. Scamper followed the children to Grandfather's lap, flopped his ears, ignored the conferring statesmen. That afternoon Babs and Dave took Scamper on a tour of Washington, laughed when he was unable to identify as the Treasury the building in which "dollars and quarters grow." Taken on Grandfather's yacht to Mount Vernon...