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Once during debate on the bill his backers cried: "Blast him, Carter! Dynamite him!" "Why," he asked softly, "use dynamite when insect powder will do?" One corner of his mouth curled up when he talked. Said Woodrow Wilson: "Carter snarled the Federal Reserve Act through Congress out of one side of his mouth. Think what he would have done with both sides." In 1918, Wilson made him Secretary of the Treasury. Finally, in 1920, at the age of 62, he went to the Senate...
...have fought them every year in the memory of man, but never on such a scale. Since the last week in April, every able-bodied Sardinian has been mobilized to fight the scourge, backed by a 500 million lira ($2,222,222) Government subsidy. They struck at the advancing insect columns with weapons ranging from rakes and shovels to poisoned bran and flamethrowers. But the locusts came on. Ahead of them young wheat waved green; behind them the earth lay yellow-brown under the spring sun. At night the invaders ceased their rustling and grating, huddled in great clumps...
...course he was referring to termites, which are neither white nor are they ants. Generally yellowish or brownish in color, they belong to the insect order Isoptera which is only remotely related to the Hymenoptera (ants, bees, wasps...
...cigar's sickness ... a gas inspector is like an insect on a salad. . . . Your wife "will have hair as white as sugar and her ears will be unpaid bills - unpaid because you are dead...
John quotes a passage from Viollet-le-Duc which well describes Frank Lloyd Wright's ambition, and to a considerable extent, his achievement. Wrote Viollet-le-Duc: "The leaf of a shrub, a flower, an insect-all have style; because they grow, are developed, and maintain their existence according to laws essentially logical. We can subtract nothing from a flower, for each part of its organism expresses a function. . . . Proceed as nature does in her works, and you will be able to invest with style all that your brain conceives...