Word: hives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Montpelier, Va., one Farmer Terrell put a hive of bees on a pile of hen's eggs interspersed with flannel strips. When the eggs hatched, Farmer Terrell whisked the bees away lest they sting his chicks...
...doubts the ability of the undergraduate to rise voluntarily before ten o'clock and to sit with a book in his hands for several hours during which he will imbibe at least some information, had best clim's the multitudinous steps of Widener Library and gaze upon the hive. There he will find something which, in view of various prophecies, is surprising and portentous...
...Communist Party Congress- a great hive of angry bees which have been droning monotonously at Moscow-took drastic action, last week, and expelled from the party 98 extremely prominent Communists. In Russia, expulsion from the one and only party permitted to exist is a sentence of political death. No Russian not a Communist in good party standing, can hold public office. The 98 who were thus "politically executed," last week, suffered this penalty because they are supporters of two World-known Russian statesmen who have tried to lead an Opposition in the Communist party but were recently expelled from...
...inhabitants of Kenton, Ohio,* were so befuddled last week that they would not have been surprised to find rabbits in their beds or eggs in their shoes. For three days, their town was a hive of deft-fingered, beady-eyed men who stopped at nothing. But Kentonites were proud, for they were being entertained by 500 members of the International Brotherhood of Magicians-Harry Blackstone, Mysterious Smith, T. Nelson Downs (King of Koins), Rajah Raboid, the Hudspeths and many another. Important doings...
...came to inaugurate what may well prove the most important excavation of the present age. Steaming along the bay of Naples to Resina, the Savoia, cast anchor, and His Majesty disembarked at this modern hive of macaroni workers who dwell unconcerned above the buried ruins of Herculaneum, perhaps to be described as "the Newport of Imperial Rome." The city was obliterated by the same eruption of Vesuvius which engulfed Pompeii (1,848 years ago). Thirty feet of rock-hard lava cover the palaces of Herculaneum; but with the coming of His Majesty last week, rock drills began to purr...