Word: cockroach
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...Drink & Be Merry. In Savannah, when Mrs. Annie L. Horski sued the local Coca-Cola bottling company for $20,000 after allegedly finding a cockroach in one of its bottles, Defense Counsel Alex Lawrence told the jury that the insect could cause her no harm, to prove his point took a cockroach from his pocket, ate half of it, won his case...
...children play at the reality they know best: sudden and violent death. Solemnly, at "an old mill presided over by an ancient owl, they build a little cemetery. There they first bury Paulette's puppy, then a chick, a mole, a ladybird, a rat, a lizard and a cockroach (which Michel impales on a pen while imitating the terrifying sound of a German dive bomber). They even steal crosses from a real cemetery for their animal burial ground...
...roll off their backs before they can crawl. I believe Joyce Gary is all and more you say he is, but in the case of that apple-headed infant of his, his bright eye erred. Could he have had in mind a baby turtle, tortoise or even cockroach? They have that trouble. Not babies...
...leisure he studies animals, and with a loving eye: not the large zoo animals or the poor, doomed "experimental" animals of laboratories, but mostly small casual creatures (mice, canaries, cockroaches) who lead their skittery lives around his desk. He clocks their habits, weighs their motives, charts their systems of morality. He has a fine eye for a dreamy, pregnant cockroach or an honored canary grown wise with...
...these was Canary (1936). The most recent is Everyday Miracle (Harper; $2.75), published last week. Dr. Eckstein's books have a peculiar flavor. The professor is no mere animal lover. He feeds his canaries lemon pie, provides little ladders for mice, and is sad when a favorite cockroach named He-Who-Leaps is eaten (he fears) by a favorite mouse named Patsy. But when he writes about them and their peculiarities, he is generally pointing out in a graceful way some mystery of life...