Word: weaselers
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...President Baker has stuck to his Bank of the Manhattan Co., the corporation which his grandfather (another Stephen Baker) helped conniving Aaron Burr create in 1799, ostensibly to furnish Manhattan drinking water against the yellow fever epidemic of that year, really to weasel a banking institution through the objections of Alexander Hamilton, whom Burr hated and later killed in duel...
...anti-Nationalist Chinese and "White Russian" troops at Pukow before she could reach the upper Yangtze and the Nationalist Capital* Hankow. As Pukow was reached and the usual river patrol boat full of Chinese soldiers put off from the shore, Mme. Borodin and her three couriers steeled themselves to weasel out of many a question...
...chorus (and later, through the corridors, by the audience). "I climb to my saddle," he sings, "and I ride and I ride." He will say to the maiden: "If thou be as fair as men say, do on thy hood and come along o' me; and sooner than a weasel can suck a duck's egg, thou shalt be Queen of England." Near the lady's home, he loses his way, falls asleep, while Mr. Taylor's wood pieces whisper sylvan enchantments and the chorus, offstage, hums the forest mysteries. It is All-Hallow's Eve, when a maid...
...Since acceptance of this condition was a complete about face for the Nationalists, they were allowed to weasel their acceptance for electioneering purposes by declaring that although they accept the German Republic de facto they do not admit the validity de jure of the Weimar Constitution on which it rests...
...differentiation, the essential inequality of man. The 18th and 19th Centuries experimented with democracy. In the 20th Century democracy should reach its maturity. It must find out what it wants. The 20th will be the Century of Fascismo." In a word, when Il Duce is asked about liberty, he weasels, and has now learned to weasel very well...