Word: verminous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...keeping with its stature and influence, the Post has just finished moving from its 55-year-old, dingy, vermin-infested grey stone building on busy E Street into a bright, and modern $6,000,000 plant on quiet L Street, nine blocks across town. Close to the Russian embassy and the Statler Hotel, the new seven-story building has airconditioning, soundproofing in its spic & span city room, full-color presses, and enough other trimmings to awe oldtimers on the staff. Said one old Postman: "It'll be all right once we get to spitting on the floor again...
...missing Capp sequence concerned one Happy Vermin, the self-described "world's smartest cartoonist," who had hired Li'l Abner to draw Vermin's comic strip in a dimly lighted closet. Instead of using Vermin's tired characters, Li'l Abner had inventively peopled the strip with hillbillies. Cried bighearted Vermin to his slaving assistant: "I'm proud of having created these [hillbilly] characters!! They'll make millions for me!! And if they do-I'll get you a new light bulb...
Even Moors, newly-built and presumably safe from vermin, is not mouse-tight. "A mouse is a mouse anywhere," said a girl who found one behind a radiator, "but at least Moors Hall mice are clean and innocuous...