Word: ant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crowe's fondness for what he calls his "Baptist Cocktail" has made him also feared by his friends. His recipe: "Go into the kitchen, get a tall glass, and put into it everything you can reach without taking more than three steps." If there is any roach powder, ant paste or canned heat within three steps, Jim is likely to mix a spot or two with the gin, brandy, whiskey and tabasco sauce. But he apparently thrives on such concoctions. At San Diego a doctor told him: "Colonel, you owe your life to a strong constitution and good, clean...
Bloodhound and Ant. An ordinary woman-or man-might have abandoned this recondite search in despair. But the genuine scholar is indefatigable-a combination of bloodhound and ant. Ella Lonn did not forget the problem of the colonial agent. But before returning to it she produced four other books-all scholarly tomes of the kind which are published obscurely but become indispensable source books for other scholars and for popular writers...
Thus cabled New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Lewis Gannett. A suburban book critic turned war correspondent, Gannett is himself an amateur formicologist. When he arrived in Maastricht last fortnight, the burghers poured into his sympathetic ears the whole ant story...
...collection was the work of the late Jesuit Father Erich Wasmann, known as the "Fabre* of the ants." His studies of ant psychology (hermaphroditism, agricultural cooperation, etc.) are the basis of modern theories about ant society. Beginning as a specialist in the red ant, Father Wasmann eventually gathered specimens of most of the 3,500 known species of ants. When he died in 1931, he left the collection to another Jesuit entomologist, Father Schmitz, who added to it his own great collection of phorid flies (a species of hunchbacked insect...
...Bischoff, curator of the Berlin University zoological museum, marched into Father Schmitz's cloister and demanded to see the collection. Father Schmitz showed him the phorid flies (the ants had been sent to Maastricht's natural history museum for safekeeping). Snapped Professor Dr. Bischoff: "From today on all this belongs to me. And I want the Wasmann ants, too." "Give Up." This was too much, even for the quisling burgomaster of Maastricht. He helped patriotic Dutch formicophiles hide the ant collection in the cellar of the Town Hall. But Professor...