Word: crustacea
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...Congress to ransack its stacks and files for the words to an oldtime ditty entitled The Lobster Is the Wise Guy, After AIL The library, one of the world's great literary storehouses, was embarrassed to reply that it could not locate Rooney's Lobster among its Crustacea volumes or anywhere else. At hearings on the library's budget, Representative Rooney scolded Librarian of Congress L Quincy Mumford: "I was amazed to find that [you] could not come up with the words of this song which I have heard sung since I was a boy!" Already fearful...
More challenging than Crustacea, Amphibia, or nerve processes is Leverett House, with Hoadley calls "the most complicated organism on earth." He has been intensely interested in the house since his appointment as Master in 1941. Reserved informality characterizs Hoadley's attitude: he likes at once the easy formality of sherry parties and the complete informality of chatting with students over a cup of coffee. Leverett students think of their housemaster as a warm, friendly man, who knows every student in the House...
...just ain't got no privacy," moaned one rare Crustacea to its neighbor as a splintering crash was heard over head. Safe from predatory human bug-hunters and naturalists since its incarceration in a glass case at Peabody 50 years ago these animals today again had attackers...
...trap, devour and digest human beings is that they are as untrue as they sound. But it is true that the plant kingdom takes a mild, sporadic revenge on the plant-eating animal kingdom by arranging for certain plants to trap, devour and digest insects, worms, larvae, tiny fish, Crustacea-even birds, mice, frogs. Last week Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History published a booklet, Carnivorous Plants, by Botanist Sophia Prior, describing these plants and their predatory procedures...
Like the little auk, the murre feeds on ocean Crustacea, starves inland. Last week Dr. William Reid Blair, director of New York's Bronx Zoo, thought the murres' death flight might be caused by a cyclical failure in their food supply...