Word: bugging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brain. The voyage proceeds along a course unexploited by earlier epic navigators. These poet-navigators attempted to carry their loads to their readers' understandings somewhat as Australian grain boats, knot by knot, carry wheat to Liverpool. Poet Pound's boating is more like a torpedo bug's: he scoots about his map every which way, and tries to be everywhere on it as simultaneously as possible...
...talented pianist and lively music critic is Arthur Loesser of Cleveland. Morning after he played in a recital, there appeared in his Cleveland Press column a picture of Critic Loesser, an other of Performer Loesser. Wrote critic of performer: "Mr. Loesser seems to have been bitten by the irritating bug of wanting to do something farfetched. . . . Mr. Loesser succumbed to his favorite vice, that of listening to the sound of his own voice. . . . The Scarlatti pieces were not badly done, chiefly, because their atmosphere of refined wisecracking is congenial with Mr. Loesser's personality...
Germans were greeting His Royal Highness with broken-English shouts of "Hel-low Teddy," the Duke replying by giving the Nazi salute in the famed languid, halfway fashion of Adolf Hitler. Bug-eyed German moppets could be heard shouting to each other all week "Da geht der Konig von England." ("There goes the King of England...
...Their Eyes Were Watching God, an upstanding coffee-colored quadroon outlasts all three of her men-the last only because she was quicker on the trigger than he was-goes back to her village to rest in peace and to make her friends' eyes bug out at the tales of what she and life have done together...
During the Chalk Age (60 to 150 million years ago) the air must have swarmed with all kinds of insects-but for some mysterious reason fossil evidence of Chalk Age bugs is rare almost to the point of nonexistence. Smithsonian Institution scientists were therefore delighted to receive last week two rare wing-prints lately found in 100,000,000-year-old Colorado sandstone, one of a giant leaf hopper, the other of something like a modern squash bug...