Word: locusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...YEARS OF THE LOCUST (America, 1929-1932) - Gilbert Seldes - Little, Brown...
...that those who are still on the run may read. Calling his book a "fever chart," he plots the curves of recent U. S. public opinion, shows how it followed the swoops of economic graphs. Written with wit and wisdom. The Years of the Locust is a serious book not aimed at mental moppets, well worth a tycoon's time...
What causes the spry, fun-loving grasshopper, whose meanest trick is spitting "tobacco juice" on fishermen's fingers, to become the voracious, pillaging locust that every farmer hates & fears? Last week at Cornell University Dr. Jacobus Christian Faure announced that the same influence that turns a group of peaceful citizens into a crowd of bloodthirsty madmen also affects the grasshopper-mob psychology. In Pretoria, South Africa, Dr. Faure collected a lot of solitary grasshoppers. He picked all colors, brown, green, grey, soil-tinted and put them together in a cage. Soon they began to change shape and color. They...
Married. Florence T. Baker, daughter of George Fisher Baker Jr., granddaughter of the late, great financier; and Thomas Suffern Tailer, Manhattan & Newport socialite, Princeton sophomore, metropolitan amateur golf champion (last fortnight) ; in Locust Valley...
Startling indeed is TIME'S list of the "locust swarm of lobbyists," appearing in your May 16 issue...