Word: insectes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...something in her mouth that seemed to be moving, independent of the action of her teeth and tongue. She screamed, spat vehemently, alarming many nearby customers of the Horn & Hardart Co. When the object she ejected passed her lips it bit her, causing her lip to bleed. A curious insect -or reptile -about a quarter of an inch long, badly mangled by Miss Puree's teeth, lay upon the floor. Miss Puree declared that it was a lizard; the manager of the restaurant held that it was merely a roach, wasp or centipede, that its evil look...
...acres available for the crop. But all these new cotton territories face serious difficulties. In the upper African districts, irrigation is the problem. In Brazil, the cotton area is in the interior valleys where transportation is poor. In Argentina, the chief drawbacks are labor shortage, insect pests and high freight rates. Extensive areas in Sind and Punjab (India) will require irrigation before cotton can be grown there sucessfully...
...SHOW-OFF?A pungent comedy of human striving to impress, that is almost pathetic in its revelation of the insect-like futility of mankind...
Mary Blair is playing in the current Provincetown production Fashion. She was at one time associated with the Washington Square Players. She played in the insect comedy The World We Live In, and has appeared in others of Mr. O'Neill's plays, notably Diff'rent and The Hairy Ape. When Mr. O'Neill was writing All God's Chillun, so the story goes, he had her definitely in mind for the part. Unfounded press reports to the effect that other actresses had been offered and had refused the part were denied by the actresses themselves, but their denials have...
...which swept the Southeastern States, especially Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Alabama, has at least blown someone some good. Discouraged cotton planters through that section, who, during the 1923 crop season, saw the boll weevil destroy their crops, are beginning to wonder if the cold snap has reduced the insect ravage. In the past, an exceedingly cold winter in the eastern cotton belt has usually been followed by several years of good crops. The boll weevil, while apparently able to grow fat on the arsenic compounds with which the cotton plant is sprayed, cannot endure extreme cold weather. Whether...