Word: logged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they are less than half the size of a house fly. Commonest in the Mississippi Valley, they are closely related to the black flies which pester humans farther north. Buffalo gnats breed in swift-flowing streams, attaching their wormlike larvae to the downstream side of a large rock or log. After a month or six weeks the larvae spin cocoons, soon emerge full-grown. The first spell of warm weather sends them swarming to fields and barnyards...
...means of a large, gleaming sea serpent. He confessed that he had fabricated the serpent to give his story-loving friend, the late Col. William D'Alton Mann, longtime publisher of the defunct Town Topics, "something to talk about." Said Artist Watrous: "I got a cedar log and fashioned one end of it into my idea of a sea monster or hippogriff. I made a big mouth, a couple of ears, like the ears of an ass, four big teeth . . . and for eyes I inserted in the sockets of the monster two telegraph pole insulators of green glass...
...Some years ago Ramsay MacDonald, Premier of England, made a historic visit to the United States, during which he engaged in a famous secret conversation with the then President Herbert Hoover while both were sitting upon a log at the Rapidan Camp. . . . There have been many surmises and speculations as to what was said, but the veil of silence has remained unlifted until today. . . . I believe the time has come to make it public. I shall...
Chaplin, Admiral Byrd and Rasputin; a cane made from a log of Abraham Lincoln's cabin birthplace; a cane on which are carved the faces of all Hungary's kings from Attila to Franz Josef. The Earl of Gosford displayed himself and pipes. Authoress Joan Lowell lent some 50 quarter-inch Central American dolls. Others volunteered their stamps, coins, needlepoint pictures, ship models, salt cellars, decoy ducks, penny banks...
...Traylor could never remember when he was first put to work. At six he was drying dishes in the family home on a Kentucky farm-two log cabins set end-to-end with space between for wash-tubs. At 51 he was in Switzerland helping to organize the Bank for International Settlements. At 18 he was teaching school for $150 a year, working as a grocer's clerk, joining a fire company to get a free bed. At 53 he was making nearly $100,000 a year and had been groomed for the Presidency. At 27 he was manager...