Word: flits
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...Judge cartoon led to a livelihood. In it, a dragon crawls ferociously into the bed of a "mediaeval tenant" who complains, "And just after I'd sprayed the whole castle with Flit!" Flit was a bug spray, and its manufacturer, Standard Oil of New Jersey, soon hired Geisel to create an ad campaign. "Quick Henry the Flit!" became one of the best-known catch phrases from between the wars. (It lingered decades later in a cartoon, appearing in one of Harvey Kurtzman's magazines - Trump or, more likely, Help! As I recall it, a man summons his butler with...
...Flit ads were a sensation, and are still funny, especially those that no corporation would approve today. A girl with her brother explains to dad: "Willie just swallowed a bug, and I'm having him gargle with Flit." A male and a female mosquito stand before a minister mosquito, with a scowling fourth figure holding the spray at the groom: "The Flit Gun Wedding." A bug stands in front of the business end of the spray gun, a rope attached to the pump: "The suicide." In a tribute to his ancestors, Geisel did one ad in semi-German: "Quick Heinrich...
...public notice (signed by Lindbergh), "This Bird is Possessed of an Evil Demon!" Once the U.S. finally entered the War, Geisel fired his heaviest artillery: the Ameri-bird confronting huge German and Japanese mosquitos with a canister labeled "U.S. Defense Bonds - Stamps" and the caption, "Quick, Henry, THE FLIT...
...mind. Though that may sound easy, the actual practice of it is very difficult. Cecile McHardy, a trained lama who teaches meditation on Mondays in the Mather Tranquility Room, ascribes to the average human “a butterfly mind, a monkey mind.” This tendency to flit from subject to thought to subject through free associations can make it quite hard to concentrate deeply on any one thing. In some meditation techniques, you are supposed to constantly return to the object of concentration, such as breathing, while in others you are simply supposed to be aware...
...point, it forged a working alliance with yet another penny-stock company, WasteMasters Inc., one of the fringe enterprises that flit in and out of the synfuel industry. Two former top WasteMasters operatives, a Dallas father-and-son team, are under federal indictment on charges of securities fraud, money laundering, assisting in the preparation of false tax returns and conspiracy--all unrelated to synthetic fuels. As was the case with Earthco, officials at Startec were unavailable for interviews...