Word: eat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dressed in black, attended by "Black Guards," stirred up Klan resentment. He withdrew with his Black Guards, who apparently burgeoned, without his assistance, into the Legion. Refusing to define his position, "Dr. Billy" said: "You have to have mystery in a fraternal thing to keep it alive; the folks eat...
...scores. Toward the end of his life jazz dimmed his box-office power, but he went on spending freely, passing out $10 bills as he walked down the street. Death came to him on May 27, 1924. He lunched at his club that day, boasted that he could eat nails. Two hours later he was dead in his doctor's office...
...Senate to excoriate Works Progress Administration. Scornfully he cried: "We are told over and over again by the President, Hopkins and Farley that there is no politics in relief. . . . No politics in relief! . . ." On firmer ground than when he read a canned speech about the poor having to eat canned dog-food (TIME, May 11), Senator Dickinson thereupon read into the Congressional Record, without giving any names, a letter written by "a gentleman who holds one of the highest offices in the Federal Government." The letter in full as later ferreted out by the Press: "Mr. Eugene A. Russell "Boone...
...damp uplands of the Belgian Congo a glowering male gorilla beats his breast, while the female leans placidly against a tree, watching her baby eat wild celery. At a waterhole a mother giraffe with widespread forelegs is bending down to drink. Beside her are the male, keeping watch, and the calf. Nearby a young Grévy's zebra is suckling its mother. In the background baboons are scrambling over a steep cliff. On the plains of Tanganyika a group of mottled, sinister-looking wild dogs are intently watching a herd of zebra, ready to give chase...
...region, has a small range-parts of West Virginia, Virginia and North Carolina. This year's Brood X, hatching from eggs laid in 1919, is among the largest. It ranges from Michigan to Georgia, from eastern Missouri to Long Island. Tibicina septendecim is a toothless insect, does not eat plants but simply sucks at them. It makes no attempt to escape from sparrows, its greatest enemy. The female damages orchards and vineyards by using her sawtooth appendage to carve grooves in which to lay her eggs. When the larvae hatch from the eggs, they fall to the ground...