Word: bugging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last storm-tossed shower was at Boston in 1871. Only 20 recorded times in the past 40 years has the bird been found inland. Looking somewhat like a dove-sized penguin, the little auk is helpless on land. It feeds chiefly on a type of water bug found only at sea, needs the impetus of a wave to get into the air. Of nearly 100 picked up in New York's metropolitan area last week, only four survived...
...Associated Press discovered that Mississippi has places named Hot Coffee, Whynot and O. K.; Florida has Sonny Boy, Two Egg, Coon and Sisters Welcome; North Carolina has Hog Quarter, Maiden and Red Bug; Virginia has Ego, All, Swallow Well and Topnot; Arkansas has Smackover, Self Sodom, Greasy Corners and Hog Scald; Louisiana has Blank, Wham and Uncle Sam; Georgia has Ty Ty, Crisp, Bacon and New York...
Typhus has persisted in cities along the U. S. Atlantic and Gulf coast despite sanitary precautions. It has at times erupted in communities without a lousy inhabitant. Perhaps some other bug transmits the disease, thought Dr. Rolla Eugene Dyer of the Public Health Service. With associates he began the study of typhus ab initio...
When Reporter Klein worked for the Chicago Tribune his wife nicknamed him "Banjo-eyes" because his round eyes would frequently bug with astonishment like those of Moon ("Banjo-Eyes'') Mullins, hard-boiled Tribune comic strip character...
...Marshall Field's George Henry Gillies filled enough buckets with rare roses to bring his employer six different first prizes. Greenhousemen built a 60-ft. bank of flowering orchids like a chorus girl's dream of heaven. A million dollars' worth of blossoms and not a bug or a worm or a weed, but in this, the third year of the Depression, the International Flower Show took on a new seriousness...