Word: moth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...less apparent now in the prolonged life of the French Royalist party. But the latest reports, that the fiery Camelots du Roi are in fact petit bourgeouis whose families have arisen since the Revolution is slightly disconcerting to one who has pictured them secretly trailing the rusty awords and moth-eaten pupple of their titled ancestors...
...intent upon the discussion or display of feminine attraction and its results upon a fallible mankind. So intent were six of these that the Society for the Suppression of Vice began to move restlessly in its cocoon. There was danger that it might burst and become a full-fledged moth to eat through the linings of the managers' money bags. But no. The managers, the actors, the playwrights put their hard old heads together. A plan developed...
...gypsy moth is threatening again in Northern New York and New England. The state has a special Bureau for its control and has a 25-mile zone on the Eastern border under constant supervision for the study of air currents in relation to the moths. More than 6,000 toy balloons were liberated at various points to determine the prevailing course of the winds, and 400 were returned to Albany by their finders. A motorized balloon of a new type, equipped with pumps and sprayers, is used to combat the moths...
...swooped down over Manila in such numbers as to put that city in semi-darkness for almost six hours. A game of gold was interrupted. In the Maine woods a whole forestry service is goading an army of slugs and other parasites to a counter-offensive against the gypsy moth, which is destroying the forests. At the same time legislators in seaboard states are rallying to the aid of the oyster, in grave danger of extinction. It is only at such times, when privilege and property is in danger, that the present society of high finance deigns to notice...
This University appears to be still exempt. For a time the "Gadfly" gave promise of action: but it much-heralded appearance was more suggestive of a butterfly or moth. Yet there is no telling what secret ammunition may have been brought in; already there are rumors that a more penetrating criticism, from the same source, is about to be let loose. The game of setting up little tin gods and clay-footed idols to knock over is not particularly dangerous, and it has a certain virtue in putting the small players in trim for larger struggles. To undergraduate onlookers...