Word: ladybird
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entomologist, 10,000,000 Hippodamla convergens means so many ladybird beetles-small, black-stippled yellow inhabitants of California's high Sierras, fond of eating the eggs of the vegetable aphis (louse) which is a scourge of most truck farmers. To Robert Bogue, who is both an entomologist and a businessman, 10,000,000 Hippodamla convergens last week meant the biggest order yet received for his chief stock-in-trade...
...just as experiences on shore had left his wife tradition-bound. Between these two influences their only child, Mattie. grew up, strait-laced and windy-willed at the same time. After her mother's death Mattie is free to do as she pleases, but nothing happens until the Ladybird and its blue-eyed Captain Isadore Davis put in to Bowfort. At the sight of free-&-easy Isadore, Mattie's blood goes wild. Out to sea she sails with him, without letting her father know. Her father philosophically consoles himself with the thought that he had always wanted grandchildren...
...contradicted a newshawk who dared ask about a "startling statement" she had made: "Young man. I never say startling things." In her yellow stucco house at South Hadley, Mass, she lives with Jeannette Marks, professor of English Literature, surrounded by big collies called such names as "Lord Wellesley" and "Ladybird Holyoke." Her motto for her students is "Poise, Purpose & Perseverance"?corrupted behind her back into "Poise, Poipose & Poiseverance." To this last week the first woman in the world to sit officially in a major international conference could add Peace. Declared Delegate Woolley...