Word: beese
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"Gladiolus," said the professorial gentleman. Edna Stover, 11, of Trenton, N. J., felt baffled. "Gladiolus," repeated the gentleman. "It is the name of a flower." Edna took his word for it. She gulped. "G-l-a-d-y-o-l-u-s," said Edna, and looked scared. The gentleman was...
By 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...
There is always the comfort, however, whenever scientists brilliantly expose a popular superstition, that no one will believe them. The truth about bees, while it may be used by bee-keepers, will be rejected by makers of nursery rhymes, public moralizers, and by anyone else who wishes to point triumphantly...
The coppery cannibal Indians of upper Brazilian Guiana, squatting at their fires, their poisoned arrows handy on the ground, are not perturbed when a cobra slithers into camp, or a scorpion stings a foot, or a stream of venomous winged ants pours out of the jungle to dispute possession of...
There was an old man of St. Bees,