Word: jellyfish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heavies boom like an organ. Smaller shells howl, pipe, hiss. Searchlights sweep the dark sky, halt, quiver on a black insect? the airman. He falls. A bell rings?Gas! I remember the gas patients coughing out their burnt lungs in clots. I don my mask. Like a big, soft jellyfish the gas floats...
...firefly and the glowworm blink their lights? How does the jellyfish called ctenophore and the tiny, multitudinous noctiluca flash in the sea? And two score other fish, insects, plants, and bacteria...
...wonder if the blue jellyfish . . . out at Point Lobes . . . have kings of their own, big jellyfish, bluer and more transparent than all the rest−and do they have royal weddings, do you suppose? Maybe...
...startling specimen was a transparent bell-shaped jellyfish, about a foot in diameter, which propels itself by opening and closing like an umbrella. This creature's interior is a dining room, playground and protectorate for as many as 300 little silvery fish. Unharmed by the host's poisonous tenacles and living on its killings, the parasite's swim in and out of its mouth at will...
Immigration. Liberals will promise to try and work out a system like that just established between Britain and Australia, whereby British emigrants to Canada are to be financially assisted by the Home and Dominion Governments. Conservatives will continue to call Mr. King "a jellyfish" for not having managed this already...