Word: kerns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ground itself seemed to crawl forward in a grey mass," wrote eyewitnesses. "Tenderhearted" motorists were halted on the highways by the creeping hordes. More brutal drivers forged ahead, until they "skidded and were blocked" by masses of living and dead mice. Every front door in the lowlands of Kern County was reported to be shut fast, housewives staying within, men climbing out their windows to give battle. In the oil fields, workmen awoke to find their shacks alive with squeaking, gnawing rodents. Shoes were nibbled to shreds; socks were like lace; shirts and trousers in tatters. "One man couldn...
...which, seldom carnivorous (except for fish), must presumably have mistaken the undulating carpet of rodents for a grey lake. Running amuck in the tumbling, whispering, squeaking herds went coyotes and wildcats; even a wolf was seen. But mankind had warred too well upon the natural enemies of mousedom* in Kern County. The mouse millions marched...
...human inhabitants of Kern County declared a mouse war. It was with joy indescribable that the newsgatherers learned the name of the mouse catcher the U. S. Biological Survey was sending?one S. E. Piper. They played up this coincidence for all it was worth, longing to call Houseman Piper "pied" but realizing that the slang connotationf would be slanderous...
...next day we rode a trail which climbs to a gap at the southern end of Langley ridge called Army Pass, and so on to the head of Rock Creek, a tributary of the Kern River, which itself finally reaches the San Joaquin valley at Bakersfield. Emerging into the pass, we came out on a broad granite plateau sloping gently west, an abrupt change from the tremendous cliffs skirted by the trail coming up from the east, and soon descended to first water and timber line, following Rock Creek down to 9,500 feet, three miles above its final plunge...
Lyric-writer Bolton, with P. G. Wodehouse and Jerome Kern, co-wrote among other musical comedies: Very Good Eddie; Oh, Boy; Oh, Lady, Lady...