Word: bugging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rushing back to Washington, Senator Long burst into the Senate for a round of New Deal name-calling which began with "Lord High Chamberlain Ickes, the Chinch Bug of Chicago" and ended with: "Roosevelt desires that there shall be re-inflicted upon [Louisiana] the rottenest, most corruptive form of political debauchery ever known-and I don't mean maybe...
...Anything to help build up a militant party!" cried gigantic, snaggle-toothed Representative Hamilton Fish of New York whose radio fan mail has infected him seriously with the Presidential bug...
Scraping at this rate the bug can manage to produce a sound with a frequency of about 8,000 vibrations per second, or a note five octaves above middle C, but he can also go up to 16,000 and even 32,000 without ill effects. A rise in the temperature of the room in which he is being tested will cause a corresponding increase in the sound pulsations of his fiddling, putting the tempo up from 16 per second at 70 degrees Fahrenheit, to 20 beats a second at 94 degrees Fareneit. Only a male cricket can make these...
...away from home three months. During that time he has written his wife Josie (Violet Heming) one letter. That letter grew to such proportions that he sent it not to Josie but to the American Mercury. Meantime Josie has received a bite from what Sherwood Anderson calls "the writing bug" and has turned out a salacious best-seller called A Naked Woman. The book is a case history of a wife who knows how to amuse herself with other men when her husband is out of town. When he learns of A Naked Woman's authorship, all -Philip Frampton...
...picture was produced in England and is quite one of the best things that has been sent us. There are no great spectacular scenes and so the greatest British bug-bear, cost, has not prevented the production of a really fine picture...