Word: locusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...69th annual convention of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Long Island in the Cathedral of the Incarnation at Garden City went Banker J, P. Morgan as a delegate from St. John's of Lattingtown Church in Locust Valley, where he usually takes up the collection. Cornered by photographers with his friend the Rev. William R. Watson, he grumped : "I don't see why they take my picture. They must be a drug on the market...
...Ronald Lindsay. Lady Lindsay suggested telephoning to the Department of Agriculture. One of the Department's entomologists told the worried gardener that the insects were part of a huge and famed brood-Brood X-of periodical cicadas known scientifically as Tibicina septendecim and popularly as "17-year-locusts." The entomologist said that the insects would do little or no harm to flowers and shrubs, would make a fearful racket later on when they began to mate. Meanwhile there was nothing to do. If the gardener insisted on keeping the invaders away from his flowers, he could spread mosquito netting...
Alan Harriman, only son of Joseph Wright Harriman, was killed in an automobile crash in 1928. For his burial, the elder Harriman bought a plot of 2,531 sq. ft. in a cemetery at Locust Valley, N. Y. for $8,246. Five years later, escaping from a Manhattan sanatorium where he was held pending trial for the Harriman National Bank failure, Joseph W. Harriman spent a night and a day at his son's grave, later tried weakly to kill himself when discovered at a nearby inn (TIME...
...That" was a heavy curtain which had fallen backstage at the Locust Street Theatre, where Mayor Samuel Davis Wilson was addressing some 1,600 employes of Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co. Informed that a mere curtain had caused the disturbance, Mayor Wilson remarked: "I thought it was some of those gunmen...
Kissed by the sunny approval of summer audiences at Locust Valley this past July, Joseph Kesselring's "There's Wisdom in Women" presents its sophisticated smile for a week's run at the Colonial before it ambles on to New York. The Playgoer's more serious colleagues of the Boston press have not liked Mr. Kesselring's offering and it is with the double pleasure of aloneness that he raises his humble voice in approval. The Playgoer enjoyed "There's Wisdom in Women" and he thinks that, with the exception of the worthies of the fourth estate...