Word: lice
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stealthily, while street lights winked, a group of men approached the Central Po lice Station. Their leader carried a large sabre without scabbard, wore a soiled white linen suit, no hat, brilliant yellow shoes. It was a revolution...
...divide ants into eight series, have listed 6,000 species. Says Maeterlinck: all the higher species have a communistic unselfishness inconceivable to Man, a consequent social discipline superior to any human government. Some ants have organized armies, wage offensive wars; some own slaves; some keep herds of "cattle" (plant lice); some cultivate mushrooms. For non-carnivorous ants (the great majority) the greatest pleasure in life seems to be disgorging for others the food they have laboriously ac cumulated: "For her [the ant] regurgitation must be an act as delightful as is for us the degustation of the choicest meats...
They wrote and Mr. Milestone photographed the story of German schoolboys who went to war. There they met Hunger. They met and grew to worship a guttural, tough comrade called Kat. They met nerve-tearing bombardment, lice, pain. They met three French girls by swimming a river after nightfall. One by one they met Death...