Word: bermudas
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...assurances that business is upping, but in its final meeting the convention adopted a significant report recommending drastic economies in club operation, euphemistically referring to "this period of men tal and spiritual unrest." ROBERT L. HUTCHISON Joplin, Mo. Dirt-Doubers Sirs: Sapient Bermudans who foretell the hurricane season in Bermuda by observing spiders weaving their skeins on low bushes instead of up in tree tops, as told in TIME, Sept. 21, have nothing on Negroes living on either bank of the muddy Roanoke River in North Carolina...
Should the wasps build their nests low and close to the water, there would be no freshets that summer. Contrary to the Bermuda spider, should the nest be built high, then look out for freshets...
...silk spiders of Bermuda have been weaving their skeins on low bushes and shrubs this summer instead of up in the trees and telephone poles. Any sapient Bermudian knows what that means: a hurricane season...
...lively girl named Mary Ewing Outerbridge paid a visit to Bermuda. There British Army officers taught her a game which was becoming a polite fad in England. When she returned to the U. S., Mary Outerbridge brought with her a net suitable for minnow-fishing, several strange-looking, gut-strung bats and a rule book. She had her net pegged up on the grounds of the Staten Island Cricket & Baseball Club, set about teaching her family how to play tennis. Seven years later, when the game was being played at 33 U. S. clubs, her brother, Eugenius H. Outerbridge, helped...
...freely, too, was indicated by Senator McDougald's casual reference to a time when he had helped out the Beauharnois company by signing two $500,000 checks in a single day. More startling to Canadians was news that Senator McDougald and William Lyon Mackenzie King had gone to Bermuda, not together but simultaneously, while Mr. King was Dominion Prime Minister. Mr. King arose in the House of Commons last week to explain. He had not traveled with Senator McDougald, he said. He had gone to Bermuda "to get a reciprocal tariff on fruit and vegetables." Senator McDougald had gone...