Word: devourers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...Anderson, shaggy, amiable and prolific poetic dramatist, "has lived by its wits during most of its history. It will continue to live by its wits and to be the most important American art. . . . Governments tax it, scalpers scalp it, unions hold it up, dramatists quarrel with producers, moving pictures devour its children as fast as they appear-and still our theatre is the centre of civilization in New York and in the United States and quite amazingly, the foremost theatre of the world...
...sprightly blonde of a book, as meaty and hearty as an oldtime burlesque queen. When Oscar Wilde landed in Manhattan he arrived in a U. S. that was already smiling behind its hand. The rumors of his long-haired, dandiacal appearance, his likeness to Gilbert & Sullivan's flower-devour-ing Bunthorne, had preceded him. Newshawks delightedly reported his first wisecrack, when he said to the customs inspector: "I have nothing to declare but my genius." Ace Photographer Sarony posed him in his lank locks, fur-trimmed coat and velvet knee-breeches. Society's biggest fish held aloof...
Satan disguised as a dragon had fallen upon the moon and was determined to devour it entire. The Turks ran indoors, got their rifles, ran out again. As fast as they could load & fire, they shot at the invisible dragon, whose infernal bite mark on the moon was dreadfully visible...