Word: bees
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lionel Barrymore as the remonstrating father of Duval is excellent, and as coldly logical as usual. The minors are carefully chosen, and reproduce the France of Louis Philippe in a lively manner. Notable scenes are Marguerite's first wild party and the animated bee-hiving expedition...
...Cardinals plunged into a fence near Birmingham when a bumblebee flew into his car, distracted him. Muttered Pitcher Dean, falling into bed with his pet Scottish terrier, while his automobile was repaired: "Batters like Wally Berger. Mel Ott and Paul Waner aren't in it with a mad bee...
...While the boy Cupid snatches honey from the comb, a predatory bee stings his finger. So does the short and transitory delight which we pursue bring us woe for it is interwoven with sorrow and pain...
...famed Venus und Amor, the property of the Nűrnberg National Museum. On this panel medieval Artist Cranach shows a slim Venus, draped in a diaphanous veil wagging a warning finger at a pug-nosed Cupid who has pulled a honeycomb from a tree, and suffered severe bee stings as a result. In the upper right hand corner Medievalist Cranach appended his moral: Dum Puer Alveola Furatur Mella Cupido, Furanti Digit um Cuspite Ficit Apis. Sic Etiam Nobis Brevis et Peritura Voluptas Quam Petimus Tristi Mixta Dolore Nocet.* Because of the retreat of many of the best early paintings...
Four months ago in Natick, Mass, a countryman named Vito Geneva was stung by a bee. He felt no serious effects at the time, but in his body there occurred an obscure, powerful response called anaphylaxis. This unusual condition is the opposite of immunity. A minute dose of a foreign protein makes the victim vastly more susceptible thereafter to further small injections of the same substance. Thenceforth to Vito Geneva a bee was as dangerous as a cobra...