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...Queen Bee...
...also discovered a second sort, of an oval figure. . . . Comparing them with a cheese mite, which may be seen to move with the naked eye, I make the proportion of one of these small water creatures to a cheese mite to be like that of a bee to a horse...
...what then? There are two points of view. One, to which Washington lends an attentive ear, has been best expressed by Under Secretary of State Joseph Clark Grew, who for ten years was U.S. Ambassador to Tokyo. He compares Japanese society to a hive, the Emperor to the queen bee. There comes a time when the queen is thrust out. The hive follows her to its new home. "It was not the queen which made the decision; yet, if one were to remove the queen from the swarm, the hive would disintegrate...
...Freight, Pomme de Terre was Pumly Tar, and the dignified river L'Ours (bear) was simply Louse Creek. Strangest of all, perhaps, was the fate of a settlement named after the Dutchman De Geoijen. In short order it became De Queen, and the local news paper De Queen Bee...
...Bee Pee & XRay. Sir Walter Scott, said Mark Twain, did "more real and lasting harm" with his "sham grandeurs" than "any other individual that ever wrote." Today, few Americans suspect how many thousands of native place names are directly or indirectly Sir Walter's. "Poetic" names built around glen, dale, vale, hurst, mere and burn broke out like a rash in the late 1800s; soon they enclosed many cities "like a ring of outer fortifications," protecting them from such vulgarisms as creek, gap, bottom and bluff. "Even if a city-dweller could escape moving to the suburbs [of Larchmont...