Word: ated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vexed as a hornet, one Signer Antonio Pizzuco returned from Italy to the Bronx, buzzed all week indignantly to reporters who bought and ate the sherbets he freezes for a living at No. 769 Courtlandt...
...Matthew says of John the Baptist: "His meat was locusts and wild honey." Shakespeare in Othello refers ecstatically to food "as luscious as locusts." Last week in the French and Spanish colonies in Africa, where the locust swarms were a nuisance but not a plague, hungry natives ate their fill, played games with the hoppers, bet on their hops. Tourists from the U. S. on Mediterranean cruises took a different view, grew vexed and grumpy as the hoppers hopped into their berths, baths, soups. In Greece and Rumania the sudden arrival of the locusts was said to have caused "panics...
...refusing to become just another symphonic series, Boston's Pops have once more proved themselves unique, once more established their resistance to changing fashions. The Pops Were started 45 years ago, patterned after the Bilse Concerts in Berlin where people ate, drank and smoked while listening to music. Such a scheme was highly adventuresome for Boston in the '80s but the musicians imported for the Symphony by the late Major Henry Lee Higginson needed more than their winter engagements to support their families. They were tired, too, of ponderous scores and strangely enough they found Society in the same mood...
...Augusta, Me., Harold D. Jennings, treasurer of Central Maine Power Co., president of the city aldermen, was fishing for smelt. A salmon ate his bait. He had no license to catch salmon, yelled to S. Sewell Webster, city clerk, nearby, to make him out a salmon-catching license, got it, hauled in his salmon...
...until 1907 when protective measures were taken. By 1916 they had increased until there were several thousand on Martha's Vineyard. Then a forest fire destroyed practically all of them. Steadily the survivors died off until at present there is but one. Uncaged, he walked about last week, ate food prepared for him, stared gloomily at crows who snatched at his rations...