Word: englander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...From England there arrived in the U. S. last week a dissertation by a Sheffield University researcher named Kenneth Mellanby on the longevity of bedbugs. By laborious laboratory experiments he had established the fact that in England's dank atmosphere, balmy to bugs, a sturdy Cimex might survive for years on end. The one condition: plenty to eat and no trouble getting it. Running after food was the prime cause of mortality among his experimental bugs. How long a really pampered bedbug could live, Researcher Mellanby's report did not tell...
...England, simply...
Died. Sir George Louis Victor Henry Sergius Mountbatten, Marquess of Milford Haven, 45, brother of Lord Louis Mountbatten and cousin of the late King George V of England; after long illness resulting from a fractured thigh; in London...
...gift from the King of Afghanistan. Their full names, Ribbentrop and Rabinovich, are Augur's private joke in defiance of Nazi anti-Jewish legislation. Trained to run down gazelles, Rib and Rab now lope with their master on his news hunts all over England, have committed nuisances in the sacred precincts of the Foreign Office itself...
Pittsfield, Mass, was the first to cry havoc. Police authorities in Boston and many another New England city jumped into line. New Orleans, one of the three cities west of the Mississippi which banned LIFE, used an 1884 statute to pull the magazines off the newsstands. In Tucson, only far-Western city to object, the publisher of the Arizona Star sold 25 copies of LIFE over his own counter in defiance of the police. The Memphis Press-Scimitar contrasted the local ban on LIFE with open sale at the same time of Sex Guide, The Nudist and Tattle Tales. Though...