"It's the latest popular song," declared the phonograph, speaking in a sulky tone of voice. "A popular song?" "Yes. One that the feeble-minded can … - L. Frank Baum

Of course I cannot understand it,” he said. “If your heads were stuffed with straw, like mine, you would probably all live in the beautiful places, and then Kansas would have no people at all. It is fortunate for Kansas that you have brains.

described as a horrible, cruel and remorseless grizzly, whose only business in life is to eat up little girls — shoes, dresses, ribbons and all! And then, the author says, I smack my lips and glory in my wickedness.

"Aren't you good for ANYthing?" asked Trot. "Yes, I'm pretty to look at, and that's more than can be said of you," retorted the creature.