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...story concerns the difficulties encountered by one Harry Quill, a rug salesman with a yen for old time vaudeville, in putting on the annual show for his lodge. After assembling a collection of moth-eaten variety artists, one-time headliners but now hovering on the brink of the Borsch circuit, Quill encounters opposition in the form of Tropp, chancellor of the Lodge, who calls the whole thing off because Quill won't let Mrs. Tropp sing three Schubert Songs to infuse tone into the entertainment. But the villain is foiled, and by the use of false telephone calls...
Most dramatic game of the series was the second, in which Cub Pitcher Dizzy Dean's famed $185,000 sore arm fooled the Yankees for seven innings with slow balls that flew over the plate like a single file of moths, twisting and curving where the Yankees least expected them. But after they solved the mysteries of the Dean moth balls, the Yankees went on a scoring spree with the result that their veteran Lefty Gomez became the only pitcher ever to be credited with six World Series victories, no defeats...
...worth of woolen goods to be made into winter coats for needy women & children by WPA workers. Last week city inspectors rejected half the cloth submitted. Twenty merchants had supplied good goods. Six others, with the bulk of the orders, had tried to palm off material containing moth holes, streaks, bare places, weak spots. Angered, Comptroller Joseph D. McGoldrick gave the six a chance to make good before publishing their names. Still hopeful, one shyster took back his shoddy, resubmitted it as a new delivery...
...piece of apparatus is a vertical, hollow cylinder, five feet high and four feet in diameter. On the inside wall of the cylinder are alternating black & white stripes, running vertically from top to bottom. These stripes can be adjusted in width from a maximum of five inches down to Moth inch. The animal is placed inside the cylinder, which is then turned slowly by hand. If the animal makes eye or head movements following the rotation, it is assumed that it can see the stripes. Their width is progressively diminished until the animal stops turning its eyes- thus showing that...
...were not for the birds," said Fletcher, "we would have no flora and consequently no animal food. For on a typical apple tree the female gypsy moth lays 500 eggs. Each of the moths from these eggs lay 500 more eggs, and in a few years there are literally millions of caterpillars, even allowing for a fifty per cent mortality...