Word: bee
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...popular saying which he knows to be false. "Sunset" is still the accepted term for "earthrise", and ostriches continue to bury their heads in the sand everywhere but in real life in spite of all that scientists say to the contrary, but these are exceptions. Even the bee has now been unmasked as a sluggard, not at all living up to his nursery reputation for ceaseless industry...
...means of electric contacts and restricted passages, Government scientists have discovered that the busy bee really spends most of his time in the hive, instead of performing his function of hymeneal communicant from flower to flower as nature intended. Furthermore, by counting the number of bees and calculating how many trips each one takes during a life-time, the destroyers of popular mythology conclude that each bee does an insignificant amount of work, compared to the noise he makes...
...over the Sierra Parima to the Orinoco Basin in Venezuela. But these placid cannibals were most likely at a loss, last winter, when they pricked their ears to the distant humming of a billion ants on the move, a humming that became the drone of a host of baritone bees, of one giant bee, of a visible giant bee with a tail like a scorpion, of the first airplane those cannibals had ever seen. Down from heaven fell red parachutes at their feet -bales of beads, knives, gewgaws. "Glug," mused the cannibals, "glug, glug." The chances were that the next...
Tonight's program will be as follows: 1. Introduction to Act III "Lohengrin" Wagner 2. Overture to "William Tell" Rossini 3. Jota Stoessel-Jacchia 4. Fantasia, "Fedora" Glordano 5. Twelfth Hungarian Rhapsody Liszt 6. Rachem (Invocation) Manna-Zucca (Orchestrated by A. Jacchia) 7. Scherzo, "The Flight of the Bumble Bee" Rimsky-Korsakov 8. Ouverture Soiennelle "1812" Tchaikovsky 9. Selection, "Carmen" Bizet 10. Valse Triste Sibelius 11. French Military March Saint-Saens
...sales, may, however, have been calculated with the Crossword Puzzle Magazine in mind. The cross-section of the U. S. press examined by TIME on Jan. 5 , showed but two changes. The following newspapers were still publishing crossword puzzles last week: Washington Post, Atlanta Constitution, Detroit Free Press, Omaha Bee, Chicago Tribune, Buffalo News, Cleveland Press, Cincinnati Enquirer, New Orleans Times-Picayune, Philadelphia Public Ledger, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Transcript and nine Manhattan dailies. Crossword puzzles had ceased to appear in The Kansas City Star, The Minneapolis Tribune...