Word: bugging
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Lips. The Hahn lady's lips are red with a dye from the "Kermes berry." Kermes is not a berry at all but a bug - a reddish, wingless female insect, relative to the cochineal of Mexico, that lays its eggs on oak leaves throughout southern Europe. The insects are killed in a vapor of hot vinegar, dried, and ground for pigment. It takes 10 to 12 lb. of kermes to produce as red a color as one pound of cochineal. The Louvre lady's lips are of cochineal, unknown in Europe before Cortes brought it back...
SIrs: A new contributor to your Letters column, I address this not to the always courteous editors, but to the embittered and insulting Mr. Leonard J. (for Justice?) Bernheim of Chicago. He has apparently been stung by the Alimony Bug or he would not howl so loudly...
...termite is a pallid, squashy little bug which would be of no importance whatever were it not for its depraved appetite. It likes to eat wood. That taste makes it immensely important to building owners in tropical and warm temperate regions. Termites do yearly damage estimated at $29,000,000 to farm buildings in the South. Seven years ago they began to alarm California. Last week Entomologist George Ethelbert Sanders of the American Museum of Natural History sent a shiver through New York City by waking it to the fact that for the first time it is seriously infested with...
...glant waterbug, or "electric light bug," as it is designated in Biological treatises, received a warm welcome at the Biology Building although no one was able to account for the long absence of the once familiar insect. Today, the bug is an interesting relic for shortly after its appearance it was sacrificed for the sake of science. It may be viewed in the bedroom of the Freshman where it is being preserved for future generations...
Last week, after ten days' study and reflection, Justice Nicholas M. Pette brought in a twelve-page decision. Ruled he: "While the cricket is technically an insect and a bug, it would appear from a study of his life that, instead of being obnoxious, he is an intellectual little fellow, with certain attainments of refinement and an indefatigable musician par excellence...