featherduster

FDR, though a "featherduster" in his youth, came to the White House with years of experience in a variety of roles inside and outside government.

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Dismissive words like featherduster, lightweight, dilettante and many others haunted FDR before and after being elected.

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I shall flog myself now with my pink featherduster and praise your immense genius to the skies!

Of Sunday 2008

You'd be helpless against the powers of my fluffy pink featherduster!

Epiphany 2007

The tubeworms yank back into their tunnels and shut the doors; the whole featherduster forest vanishes in an instant, leaving a crowd of sealed leathery tubes.

Starfish 1999

He passed manzanita bushes on the way up, and stands of featherduster grass, and a yucca plant with its tall flower-spike just beginning to break out in creamy white bells.

THE WOUNDED SKY DIANE DUANE 1983

He passed manzanita bushes on the way up, and stands of featherduster grass, and a yucca plant with its tall flower-spike just beginning to break out in creamy white bells.

THE WOUNDED SKY DIANE DUANE 1983

He passed manzanita bushes on the way up, and stands of featherduster grass, and a yucca plant with its tall flower-spike just beginning to break out in creamy white bells.

THE WOUNDED SKY DIANE DUANE 1983

He passed manzanita bushes on the way up, and stands of featherduster grass, and a yucca plant with its tall flower-spike just beginning to break out in creamy white bells.

THE WOUNDED SKY DIANE DUANE 1983

"There's an old saying, 'One day a peacock, the next day a featherduster,'  " he said after walking to vote near his home.

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