Word: insect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pond animal life reproduced at the Museum there are water fleas, protozoa (single-celled animals), insect larvae, and rotifers. The rotifers, most interesting, give their name to the entire exhibit. The commonest kinds are shaped like tops. The rotifer head is round and surrounded at the flat shoulder with fine cilia which vibrate (in life) so rapidly one after another around the circle of shoulder that the whole body seems to rotate. They are voracious and pugnacious, crouching on a microscopic plant and then swiftly springing at a stray water flea, a protozoa, a bit of leaf...
Then there was Preacher Straton and more Vice, more saloons. The Warrior was so vexed that he "dignified an insect with an incident...
...smallest, a pomeranian, Bogota Firebug, minced into the ring on insect legs. Like a mosquito who has been crawling in the fluffy dust under a boarding house bed, he stood, looking up at the crowd with startled, pert malignance...
...nasty trick of war, a "big Wop from Peoria," Tony Rickey, became the hero of this story. In boyhood, he was a bootblack. In youth, he founded the National Bug-Killer Co., which rented to thousands of farmers, by mail, a machine guaranteed to kill each & every insect or worm. The machine consisted of two blocks of wood-"you put the bug you wanted to kill on one block and squashed him with the other." Rental $2. Tony disappeared when the Postoffice got inquisitive, and left Deacon Miscombe holding the bag. In War, Aviator Tony annoyed a German sausage balloon...
Alfred Lee Loomis, Manhattan banker and physicist, and Frank E. Lutz, curator of insects at the American Museum of Natural History, played scientific tricks with a cricket. They played the black bug in a vacuum and in a container of compressed air; for ten minutes they whirled him in a machine 1,200 times a minute. The insect did not die because air pockets j in his hard coat apparently protected him. Beside these insect researches, Mr. Loomis, vice president of Bonbright & Co., experiments in his private laboratory at Tuxedo Park, N. Y., on the effect of "super-sounds...