Word: throttlebottoms
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...family lived on tinned beef and dried apricots until, at the crucial moment, Julius, the missing Secretary, re appeared. He brought with him Man- That-Jumps-Like-a-Flea, an Osage Indian who was to save them all. The complaint of the raging mob outside was that Throttlebottom, the Vice President, had not a Constitutional amount of Indian blood. A transfusion appeased the mob and the day was saved. Ex-President Wintergreen concludes: "I had done my duty by America and ... I'd be damned if I'd do it again...