Word: tweedledum
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...Comfortably-built Christopher Morley lately spoke, on his "Bowling Green" in the Saturday Review of Literature, of "two stout, elderly, ruddy nabobs . . . the two rotund conductors, Tweedledum and Tweedledee" whom he, during a Chicago-to-New York trip on the Century, saw conferring on the LaSalle Street and Elkhart, Ind., platforms. N. Y. Central men are agreed that Mr. Morley must have seen Conductors Hendrix and Jefferey, of whom only one, however, might be called stout, rotund? Conductor Jefferey. (Conductor Lund may have been Tweedledee to Conductor Jefferey's Tweedledum; he is heavier than Conductor Hendrix. But between Conductors Lund...
...Stove pipe committee"?conductors in conversation (cf. Tweedledee & Tweedledum above). In the eyes of some porters, some conductors are "pretty high-hat," toplofty, consciously superior...
...These rabbits, male and female, known as "Tootsie" and "Tweedledum" respectively, brightened the duller moments of Thaw's life at Matteawan. He pinched them until they squealed, bit them with his yellow teech, chased them with a pole, tossed them 40 feet in air and let them fall on the ground "to see if it would hurt them...
...socialist member of Parliament and author. All were accompanied by their wives. The Daily Herald, London radical journal, published angry letters from Laborites. One critic said: " Continuous association with our political opponents is likely to reduce our campaign in the House of Commons to the old sham fight between Tweedledum and Tweedledee which we have done so much to expose...
...insist on being "represented" without regard to any principle of reason or of justice. If the members of the present Senior Class could get over the idea, when they meet, that such and such a man is to be opposed because he happens to be a member of the Tweedledum Society and that so-and-so should be supported because he belongs to the Tweedledee Fraternity, they would show themselves worthy of respect as men and would strike a blow at a relic of boyishness. If the offices are filled without reference to the artificial lines which...