Word: ladybirds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hiram Johnson is the Senate's Great Isolationist. William Borah is its Great Conversationalist. He had heard of Anthony Eden's pregnant preference to "say nothing" when asked in the House of Commons if Britain and the U. S. were acting in concert after the Ladybird and Panay bombings. He had been even more abashed when the late U. S. Ambassador to Great Britain, Robert W. Bingham, had assured a British audience: "If dictatorships are better prepared to begin war, democracies are better able to finish it. Despots have forced America & Britain to undertake rearmament, & having undertaken...
...Although the Yangtze is by treaty an international waterway, although all British vessels flew the British flag and had huge Union Jacks painted on their deck, three unsuccessful airplane attacks were made on the British gunboats Cricket and Scarab. Small calibre Japanese guns began to pepper the British gunboats Ladybird and Bee, the British river steamers Sui-Wo and Butterfield...
...remaining honors for her characterization of Miss Pross, the best of the pre-Wodehouse servants. No part could suit her better than that of this stiff, self-righteous, devoted maid-companion, to whom non-churchgoers are Atheists and the whole world is at the call of her ladybird. Blanche Yurka takes the part of Madame DeFarge, the fanatical wife of the wine shop keeper who heads the Jacquerie. She is in the role of an intensely emotional and overbearing personality such as she has played on the legitimate stage for many years under various guises. One of the most interesting...
Robert Bogue got a pencil, computed how much water would be necessary to keep 10,000,000 comatose ladybirds at the proper humidity during shipment from his bug nursery in Glendale, near Los Angeles, to the cooperative group of Virginia growers who wanted them to patrol some 16,000 acres. Packing case after packing case was withdrawn from the 60x40 ft. cold-storage room, the water carefully doused on the moss in the cases and the huge ladybird army started east under refrigeration. Then Robert Bogue sent a bill...
When Entomologist Bogue went to San Bernardino County Hospital to teach after the War, he learned that hordes of the ladybirds were being rounded up in the mountains and brought down to police vegetable gardens in the valleys, but that none were shipped out of California because they were so perishable. He began to experiment. Three years ago he discovered that in a temperature of 42° and a constant and definite humidity, the bugs would live indefinitely without feeding, could be shipped long distances. But even when warmed up the ladybird beetle is too temperamental to breed in captivity...