Word: bedbugs
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...Hegelian philosophy, a brilliant economic mind, trenchant political discernment, a complete inability to earn a living, a perfect willingness to let Friend Engels earn one for him. Marx was also one of the most vituperative geniuses who ever lived. Favorite Marxian epithets for friends and foes alike: Dog! Bedbug! Swine! Pot! Blockhead! Cow! Says Author Wilson: "As the years go on, the word Esel (jackass) seems almost to become synonymous with human being...
...cosmopolitan creature is Cimex lectularius, an oval, flattened, mahogany-hued insect without wings and with mouth parts for piercing and sucking. Its principal food is human blood. Slum dwellers are acquainted with Cimex lectularius under a commoner name-bedbug...
From England there arrived in the U. S. last week a dissertation by a Sheffield University researcher named Kenneth Mellanby on the longevity of bedbugs. By laborious laboratory experiments he had established the fact that in England's dank atmosphere, balmy to bugs, a sturdy Cimex might survive for years on end. The one condition: plenty to eat and no trouble getting it. Running after food was the prime cause of mortality among his experimental bugs. How long a really pampered bedbug could live, Researcher Mellanby's report did not tell...
...send your husband to jail?" asked Mr. Anthony. "He deserved it," answered 28% of the women. Desire to avenge some specific injury was indicated by 32% more. Other replies: "He was a louse" (or pig, bedbug, skunk, rat, cockroach, snake). Another: "My husband had the grace of a hippopotamus, the brain of a gnat, looked like a giraffe, stung like a wasp, had the personality of a dead salmon and he smelled like a stable full of dead horses." Another: "I heard so much about the alimony jail and I wanted to see the inside so badly that I sent...
...good salaries, to roam over the hills in Wright and Howell Counties hunting for Indian mounds. After several weeks' search I asked if any mounds had been found, and the answer was, 'Nope; but we're still hunting for them.'... In another county a bedbug inspector was employed to inspect the mattresses which the relief agencies dealt out to those who would vote the straight Democratic ticket...