Word: bugging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, issue of May 7, p. 72, last column-Bug...
...Bug...
...Boudreau of White Plains, N. Y. used to laugh to friends of his 23-year-old wife Catherine, "she thinks she's got a bug in her ear.'' Mr. Boudreau's skepticism seemed justified for, as his wife admitted, nothing had entered her ear since a cricket flew in, and that happened when she was an 8-year-old girl playing on her father's farm in Galway, Ireland. But last week Mr. Boudreau was confounded, Mrs. Boudreau triumphant...
...berth and promptly received a complimentary and apologetic letter two pages long. He proudly displayed this to his friends as proof that corporations do have souls, until some cynic discovered and pointed out to him a faint penciled note on the back: 'Send this s.o.b. the bug letter...
...remember it was a small house, cried out at irregular intervals in an extremely loud voice, "Jack is killing me!", and this was done when Lawrence was in full possession of his health and faculties. On another occasion Lawrence turned on Murry and shouted," You're an obscene bug, suckling my life away!" And still the Murrys did not move...