Word: mothing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...glass eyes of the slightly moth-eaten stuffed bear on the staircase of London's St. James's Club should have bugged out last week. The ghost of suavely arrogant, egg-domed ex-Member George Nathaniel, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston and British Foreign Secretary of the 1920s, must have shivered in its shroud. Founded in 1757, St. James's is famed for its claret, its caricatures by Sir Joshua Reynolds and the exclusiveness of its membership, mostly confined to diplomats from the topmost social drawer. A Tsarist prince once lost ?10,000 in its card rooms. Last...
...single-toned variety on the drab soil of Oregon, a white variety on the white alkali soil of the Amargosa Desert, a black variety on the West's black lava belts. Such adaptations sometimes occur before the very eyes of biologists: during the industrialization of Germany a black moth replaced a former pale variety in factory areas...
...Cott quotes a fellow naturalist: "In . . . Tanganyika a small moth resembling a bird-dropping was not uncommon. On one occasion I observed what I thought to be one on a leaf, but after a close examination from a distance of only a few inches I discovered (to my own satisfaction) that it was after all only a bird-dropping. Just as I turned away the said bird-dropping flew...
...Babe failed to show up, and Plumber Wright's cousin Charles Barkworth, who was out to break the will. Cousin Charles and supporters told strange tales of Plumber Wright: how he kept a pistol on his table while he ate, how he deceived small children into thinking moth balls were candy, how he threatened to water his father's corpse when his mother suggested watering the lilies around the old man's bier...
...Cecil Day Lewis "an electric drill with the electricity left out." She and Osbert presented prizes to "the authors most representative of the tedious literature of the age." Novelist Henry Williamson got a stuffed fish; Biographer Harold Nicolson two stuffed kittens; the literary editor of the London Spectator 27 moth balls. Edith, by her own account, "in early youth took an intense dislike to . . . every kind of sport except reviewer-baiting...