Word: honey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other engrossing fights in Bring 'Em Back Alive are tiger v. water buffalo, tiger v. black leopard, tiger v. crocodile, crocodile v. python, python v. honey bear. The honey bear comes out better than the rest of Author Buck's creatures because he runs away first. Small and incredibly clumsy, he is the most charming of Author Buck's captives which include a quarter-ton elephant, a pot-bellied monkey, a white fuzzy creature which runs up & down on a rope...
...Wernigerode, Germany, some hundred skeptical psychic researchers climbed to the top of Mt. Brocken at night, smeared a goat with blood, honey and the scrapings of church bells, incanted the Latin Abracadabra. Urta Bohn, selected as being "a maiden pure in heart," officiated. Said Fraulein Bohn: "I guess I am as well qualified as any girl nowadays." The experiment, to discredit an old superstition by failing to change the goat into a young man, was successful. Next day Maiden Bohn was in bed with a severe cold...
...hope of catching a great big Democratic bear with its paws all sticky with short-selling honey, Senator Peter Norbeck's Banking & Currency Committee last week resumed its investigation of buying & selling practices on U. S. stock exchanges (TIME, April 25, et seq.). John Jacob Raskob was on the witness stand. Witness Raskob quietly sought to prove that his principal business is "trying to make good Democrats out of misguided Republicans," not being a big bad Bear...
...Bible remarks and as Shakespeare emphasized, fat locusts are good to eat, especially with wild honey. But the taste must be acquired. Last week battalions of embattled Africanders thought only of fighting their "locust plague" with blazing torches and smudges released expensively from roaring airplanes. When these efforts failed the Africanders waited gloomily for the locust swarms to settle and lay eggs, prepared to exterminate the eggs, dug trenches in which to trap crawling locusts and burn them...
...This food, genuine Biblical manna, descended in a white cloud on a 30-acre field at the farm of Farmer Theunis Botha, cousin of the late great Boer General Louis Botha (1862-1919). Manna, as reported by the careful author of Exodus 16:31 tastes "like wafers made with honey." It is an excretion of the plant louse coccid (TIME, Aug. 29, 1927). Its effect upon the eater is mildly cathartic...