Word: bugging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nobody knows how Bug Tussle, Ala. got its name. Its 300 citizens, mostly cotton farmers, rather think it refers to their annual battle with boll weevils...
There is no post office in Bug Tussle and nobody in Bug Tussle has a telephone. Almost everybody is almost everybody else's cousin. The citizens of Bug Tussle present a united front to the world. Two months ago two postal inspectors from Birmingham arrived to ask a few questions. It took rather longer than they thought, for nobody was at all cooperative. But last week they finally arrested seven people for using the mails to defraud...
...ancient, soot-blackened Bow Street Police Court for several weeks, officially tagged "Miss X." This slim, bobbed-hair blonde, English to judge from her accent, arrived curvesomely sheathed in clinging black, kept shifting her handsome fur piece with the sinuosity of Mae West, as she testified before a bug-eyed judge. "She is a lady," explained the Crown, refused to divulge her name...
...Jezebel's heroine was an actress largely overlooked in Gone With the Wind's nationwide parlor-casting bees, but one who came close to what the public seemed to want in Scarlett. That actress was Bette Davis-tempestuous, intense, compact & casehardened, with diamond dust in her voice, bug eyes lit with a cold blue glitter, and as wide a dramatic range as any cinemactress in the business...
...years, it was the first important one to suspend publication. Picture, brought out in December (TIME, Dec. 27), was rather effectively elbowed out of the way early in January by lowbrowed Click. Now Picture Publisher J. Stirling Getchell, one of the first to be bitten by the picture magazine bug, can again concentrate full efforts on his big advertising agency...