Word: gophers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Beverly Hills landlady Mrs. Bessie Ginzberg Lasky, wife of Producer Jesse Louis Lasky, was ordered to pay $201 damages inflicted on their house by their 12-year-old son's pet birds, mice, ducks, gopher snakes...
...American Provident Society in Manhattan. Stanford's President Ray Lyman Wilbur observed: "The gopher is, par excellence, a saving animal. He stores seeds and leaves in the ground. Perhaps we should consider the gopher and be wise...
...looks like a long fight," said the voice on the telephone. Dr. Sealock finished the letter, sat down to supper. After supper he talked quietly with his wife and daughter in the sun room. Finally he got up, walked into the kitchen. There he mixed a glass of gopher poison, gulped it down...
...Lerroux first smashed the Catalan revolt (TIME, Oct. 15). Last week he turned on the pure class war provided by Largo Caballero. As fast as Lerroux jailed anarchist committees, new ones arose. Revolt kept ducking for cover, popping out in a new place, like a prairie gopher. It made soldiers and police trigger-nervous but they remained stanch for Lerroux. At week's end they had jailed Largo Caballero, silenced the rebels' guns everywhere except in the northern province of Asturias, where revolt traditionally dies hard...
...city of Gibbsville, Pa. (pop.: 24,032), battening on the anthracite coal industry at a time when the Depression was called the Slump. In a story of only three days, John O'Hara succeeds in covering as much ground about Gibbsville as Sinclair Lewis did in describing Gopher Prairie (Main Street) in three years. He writes with swift realism, wisely avoids sentimentality...