Word: woodchuck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Snug as a woodchuck old Samuel Insull had holed in last week in his Athens apartment while two potent gatherings debated his future and his past. In Athens the entire Greek Cabinet, which had once decided to deport him Jan. 31, argued his future for two hours. The Foreign Minister, having taken the brunt of U. S. Ambassador Lincoln MacVeagh's ire, was for deportation, the Minister of Interior against. Premier Panayoti Tsaldaris was on the fence. The spell of cold, wet weather Greece has been having decided the argument. Premier Tsaldaris announced that "in the present inclement weather...
Danish-born Pilot William Ulbrich, 31, Italian-born Dr. Leon Martocci Pisculli, Manhattan gynecologist, and Edna New comer, 28, a pretty, plumpish brunette nurse from Williamsport, Pa. Also aboard was a woodchuck named Tailwind. Announced purpose of the expedition was to permit Dr. Pisculli to study the effects of fatigue on transatlantic flyers. Believing that many ocean flights have ended tragically because of carbon monoxide gas in the cabin, Dr. Pisculli took along Woodchuck Tailwind (more susceptible to the gas than humans) as a safety gauge...
...turn his hut into a blockhouse. He had dug the dirt floor out to a depth of four feet, cut loopholes at the floor level. For 15 hours Albert Johnson held off the Mounties. Hand grenades blew the roof off his hut. Albert Johnson retired, like an angry woodchuck stern foremost into a dugout, kept fighting. The police retired, disgruntled...
...Ernest Lombardi, 6 ft. 3 in. high and 220 Ib. heavy with a huge nose and hands big enough to enwrap a baseball as though it were a walnut. The New York Yankees found a monster larger than Lombardi-Jim Weaver, a 6 ft. 7 in. pitcher with a woodchuck jaw. Easily the highest pitcher in the big leagues, Weaver has a good fast ball, fair control...
...ride over it, the opinion is not diffused or popular, and the fact that some fool has gone ahead is no excuse whatever. . . . Don't gallop after the fox by yourself. If you caught him alone he might bite you. Don't 'give tongue on a woodchuck. It will cause you humiliation. There is a difference in the tails...