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...jail?" asked Mr. Anthony. "He deserved it," answered 28% of the women. Desire to avenge some specific injury was indicated by 32% more. Other replies: "He was a louse" (or pig, bedbug, skunk, rat, cockroach, snake). Another: "My husband had the grace of a hippopotamus, the brain of a gnat, looked like a giraffe, stung like a wasp, had the personality of a dead salmon and he smelled like a stable full of dead horses." Another: "I heard so much about the alimony jail and I wanted to see the inside so badly that I sent my husband there...
Soaring over Moscow's Red Square one day last week, Maxim Gorki seemed a mighty symbol of Soviet power & progress. A small training plane, gnatlike by comparison, flew alongside it. Spellbound moujiks cheered as giant and gnat disappeared in the hazy distance. Short while later a motorist drove up, babbled excitedly about how he had seen Maxim Gorki crash. Hardly had the news leaked out when instantly Soviet censorship clamped down. Not until ten hours later did the world know that the largest land-plane ever built had really met with disaster...
...over the U. S. last week Department of Agriculture agents were pushing an intensive campaign against insect pests. Catastrophic visitations like the Buffalo gnat swarm which descended on Arkansas last month (TIME, May 7) usually catch entomologists as well as farmers off guard, but against better known enemies spring surveys are conducted to find out how they survived the winter. Reports this year were far from heartening. Grasshoppers, No. 1 bane of Northwestern grain farmers, got through a mild winter in enormous numbers. Chinch bug mortality in the Midwest was only 3%. In Indiana and Kansas 93% of Hessian flies...
...Intinction, the fingers of the Priest dip into the wine; why not provide him sterile gloves? Why not mask all the congregation who are dangerous in their coughing and sneezing? Why open the Church? Flies can be dangerous, and are seen in Church. Strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel? How many of the congregation drink from the common cups in soda-fountains, and drug stores- these often rinsed in dirty, greasy sinks. How many churchmen and women catch syphilis away from the Holy Table? Were I to go up to the Holy Table assured that I only...
Before levees were thrown up to keep the river from overflowing, buffalo gnats (simnliidae) used to deposit their eggs in the shallow waters of the annual inundation. As the larvae hatched and took the air, clouds of gnats would spread over the surrounding countryside, feeding on its fauna. Only the female gnat bites, affecting the victim like the puncture of a blunt, hot awl, and leaves a dull agony in its train...