Word: mollusks
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...Gases have been developed for the destruction of the cotton boll-weevil, the wood-boring teredo, various species of disease-bearing mosquitoes, barnacles on ship bottoms and other insect and mollusk pests...
...Pinney's family consists first of his wife, "the mollusk," fat, superstitious, whose voice "held the habitual tone of a bagpipe collapsing." Then there is Mrs. Crum, hard-working mother-in-law, whose voice was "an echo of the spirit of '76," a not altogether unamiable creature. Young Eddie follows the general literary pattern of small boys. He tries to chloroform the cat, gets bad marks at school, is beloved. The daughter, Adelaide, is the high spot of the Pinney family. She is gifted with a budding intelligence which begins to blossom under the beneficent influence of her pleasant...