Word: crickets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Scot's-eye-view book on the subject. When they met again, in peacetime London, where Cameron was starting in as a journalist, Davies reminded Cameron of the idea and he began collecting material. The more he got, the more confused he became. He played in a wild cricket match with his brilliant literary acquaintances, made one of an incongruous crowd of guests at a country-house weekend, reviewed "good" and "bad" plays for a London newspaper, acted as private secretary for a Conservative M. P. called to Geneva to serve on some League of Nations committees, electioneered, went...
...Bayside, N. Y. apartment three months early, he offered an excuse-complaint not new to landlords-a plague of insects. Last fortnight in Flushing's Municipal Court, Musician Fox's suing landlords submitted this letter which they had sent him: "The insects you complained of are crickets and no doubt are found in most of the homes and apartments of Bayside. They are harmless, and many people enjoy their chirping; in fact, there was a poem [sic] dedicated to 'The Cricket on the Hearth and in China they put them in cages to hear them sing...
Last week, after ten days' study and reflection, Justice Nicholas M. Pette brought in a twelve-page decision. Ruled he: "While the cricket is technically an insect and a bug, it would appear from a study of his life that, instead of being obnoxious, he is an intellectual little fellow, with certain attainments of refinement and an indefatigable musician par excellence...
...cricket, with his musical armature, is capable of emitting his intermittent notes . . . mainly for selfish purposes of love-making ... is thus revealed to be not only a histrionic performer and a singer, but a romantic lover as well. . . . Judgment will be entered for the plaintiff for the full amount demanded...
Going home from the British-Australian cricket matches which Britain won (TIME, Feb. 27), Britain's able Bowler Harold Larwood was met at Suez by British sports editors. They offered him ?1 per word for the inside story of what happened in the test matches. In the third match Larwood had hit two Australian batsmen, on the head and chest. The crowd bar racked (jeered) him. In the fourth, Australian batsmen began to dodge Larwood's pitches and after the fifth, an Australian mob surrounded his boat train. Fellow-passengers said he was "lucky to get away with...