“At the moment I was mad enough to chew up nails and spit out paper clips.”
Jim Butcher book Storm Front
Source: Storm Front
“… and the wolf chewed up the children and spit out their bones … But those were Foreign Children and it really didn’t matter …”
Caption to a political cartoon against the "America First" movement, showing children being read a story of "Adolf the Wolf", in PM Magazine (1 October 1941)
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