Word: cockroaches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ground. Mary Bradley (Diana Gibson), the Star's sobsister, had been engaged to him until he sent her to pick out a ring while he beat her to the story of a round-the-world flight. In her opinion he was such an "utter cockroach" that she hired thugs to bar him from a dance hall fire, news of which he wished to broadcast from his pack-set. Mary stole the pack-set, found it handy after she was kidnapped by a gang of thugs occupied in stealing a Federal gold shipment, armored car and all. It was Eddy...
...Exterminators & Fumigators' Union were parading before the street entrance below. Dismayed Mr. Lewis sent friends to see whether this labor dispute could not be settled. It was impossible. The pickets were protesting because the firm to which the swanky Biltmore lets out its cockroach killing employs non-union labor. Again John L. Lewis had no choice. He packed up his papers, asked to have the conference adjourned to the Engineers' Club...
...scene was Winthrop House; the time was dinner; the chief character a cockroach. According to our informant he was a well fed and healthy-looking specimen, as yet unimpaired by his diet. When first observed he was ambling steadily across the tiled floor. One of the House scientists spotted him, gathered him up and inverted a glass over him in the center of the table, with the apparant intention of studying his life habits...
...table, being largely composed of hardened biologists, was indulging in a scientific and more-or-less detached spirit of free inquiry when disaster suddenly loomed in the person of the headwaitress. Determinedly she scooped up the startled cockroach and aimed him unerringly, as one spectator thought, at his unprotected face. But, alas, such was not the case. Oh miserable fate, he was immersed and died a dreadful death in a cup of coffee-colored fluid...
...James Franklin Yeager of the Department of Agriculture projected on a screen a cardiogram from the beating heart of a cockroach. This was obtained by exposing the heart of the insect and placing on it a minute drop of wax. A human hair inserted in the wax was connected through a lever to a fine wire. The heart beats thus jerked the wire and a light beam passing across it translated them into a pulsating graph. The Department uses this method to study the cardiac effect of insecticides...