Word: locusts
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...Bible remarks and as Shakespeare emphasized, fat locusts are good to eat, especially with wild honey. But the taste must be acquired. Last week battalions of embattled Africanders thought only of fighting their "locust plague" with blazing torches and smudges released expensively from roaring airplanes. When these efforts failed the Africanders waited gloomily for the locust swarms to settle and lay eggs, prepared to exterminate the eggs, dug trenches in which to trap crawling locusts and burn them...
Publisher Peck, while continuing to move among Brooklyn aristocrats in town and out at Locust Valley, decided to gear his paper to the white-collar middle class, and he proceeded to pour money into it. He made the Times a typical "home"' paper, unsensational, non-crusading, bursting with local news and civic pride. He initiated a costly carrier delivery service, then an innovation in Greater New York (since copied by other Brooklyn papers). In less than ten years the Times reached 100,000 circulation. The Eagle still has more than twice as much advertising, but last year it lost...
...Saturday afternoon tennis party was in full swing at Banker Harvey Dow Gibson's home near the Creek Club in Locust Valley, L. I. Mr. Gibson was wanted on the telephone. When he returned to his guests he looked thoughtful. It had been Secretary Mellon, asking Banker Gibson to be in Washington the next...
...Harvey Dow Gibson was born in North Conway. N. H. Now he lives on a great estate at Locust Valley. He rides after hounds with the Meadowbrook and wears on his chin the scar of a fall. Every morning his sleek cruiser Mystery awaits him in his own yacht basin to take him to Manhattan. Not always has he sped to work on a yacht. First, without much delight, he swept out the offices of American Express Co. in Boston. He turned out to be quite a broom. In a few years he had swept himself into place as financial...
...Charles Pratt who was a co-founder of Standard Oil Co. and founder of Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, N. Y.; and James Ramsay Hunt Jr., son of Dr. James Ramsay Hunt who served as War-time neuropsychiatrist with the A. E. F.; at St. John's of Lattingtown, Locust Valley, L. I. (tiny socialite church to which Banker John Pierpont Morgan presented last year a brand new carved oak interior...