Word: home
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fills it with honey, lays its larva, covers it over and then dies. Fabre took such houses that were built an inch apart and interchanged them, coloring with different colors each house and its bee for identification purposes. He then took the bees ... to a point three kilometers from home . . . When they were released at a predetermined hour, a watcher clocked them back in ten minutes. Though in one case the house was begun and in the other finished and stored with honey, the bees returned, not to their own work, but to the exact spot on which their house...
...Hearth & Home. In Seattle, Mrs. Mary K. Buckley won a divorce after testifying that her husband seldom got out of bed after his discharge from the Army last year except for occasional visits to the liquor store. In Hamilton, Mont., dismissing the divorce suit of Alva Palin, who had charged his wife with beating him up, District Judge C. E. Comer declared: "Slight acts of violence by the wife from which the husband can easily protect himself do not constitute cruelty...
Coals & Ditches. Pilot Barsov took a small, cramped room in Brooklyn, got a $1-an-hour job pressing coats in a clothing factory. Then he signed on as an unskilled laborer in Stratford, Conn. Boris Labensky, an engineer at the Sikorsky Aircraft plant, took him into his home. For eight weeks, Barsov lived with them while he dug ditches for drain pipes. It was a bitter comedown for an officer...
More, he rescues a rich maiden from pirates in the Mediterranean, marries her and comes home in triumph to tell his dominating mamma where she can get off. Sir William and Despina didn't live ever after, but they did live for quite a while and got along fine. To readers who know 41-year-old Osbert Lancaster's irreverent books on English architecture and his tartly urbane Classical Landscape with
...chinning himself on his own self-confidence. He would get a job as a teacher and he and Ellen would enter middle age with their human dignity and refurbished love intact. But meanwhile Ellen was going quietly insane. When he came to take her from her ancestral home and the in-laws he despised, she tried to choke him to death. Gregory went away "waiting for a direction, for the blasting and blinding miracle which could teach him how to love...