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...only trouble with Sunday supplement folk tales about deadly trees and monstrous flowers which 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...
House of All Nations brings up to date the theme of Balzac's La Comedie Humaine. Our epoch, said Balzac, is one in which "money is the lawgiver, socially and .politically," when, for money, "people fight and?devour one another like spiders in a pot." Running to 795 pages, told in 104 cinematic scenes, House of All Nations takes for its pot the luxurious Paris private bank of Bertillon & Cie., described by its head, elegant, cynical, lucky, grandly deluded Jules Bertillon, as "a rich man's club: a gambling, deposit and tax-evasion bank ... a society dump" doing...
Objectives and Rivals. Shanghai is the greatest and richest city in China but not the chief theatre of the current war, which is North China, and it was there last week that Japan's war machine continued to devour square miles, biting into a watermelon of which the immediate rind-or present circumference of Japanese objectives-is the curving Yellow River...
Screech owls are heavy eaters, devour great numbers of field mice, insects and other farm pests. For that reason they are protected almost everywhere in the U. S., although they occasionally eat small birds. New York State game officials admitted last week that the patrolman and the Rockefeller warden had technically violated the law by shooting the owls, but because of the circumstances seemed disinclined to take any action. None of the persons attacked could sue anyone for their hurts or their scares, since neither landowners nor governments are liable for attacks by wild animals...
...been capped by the sudden death of the White Russian President, Comrade Alexander Grigorevich Chervyakov. The Worker described President Chervyakov's demise as "suicide for personal family reasons," but it led up to this by describing how President Chervyakov had been publicly reviled for "letting Fascist termites devour the Party house in Minsk." Apparently the reason why the Worker was able to scoop this story was that Editor Lentser of the rival Star had been thrown into jail as a "Fascist termite...