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...thick. Yes so charming is the naivete of the three smart girls who plot to get rid of "The other woman" and pave the way to reconciliation between their parents, that an air of reality is lent this plot which otherwise might well have been left in moth balls...
...show proprietor asked for something that he could exhibit as human tapeworms, explaining that the egg noodles he had been using swelled and lost their shape. A woman wanted "a picture of all animals in the animal kingdom from protozone [sic] to mammal as soon as possible." For a moth-proofing company Ward's made up salesmen's display kit's showing the growth stages of moths and how they eat fabric. The research laboratories of General Electric and Westinghouse buy rare minerals. Amateur lapidaries order rough masses of aquamarine, rose quartz, agate...
...oversee the selection and cutting of fine trees even in his 80's. In those days Maine supplied about half the trees sold in the U. S. Eastern dealers now get their best trees from Nova Scotia. After Oldster Chapman's death five years ago the moth blight settled funereally on Maine's balsam forests, nearly ruined that State's Christmas tree production...
THIS book was obviously written with all the enthusiasm of a devotee. Mr. Snow is very young for an antiquary: he is too young at all events, to gather his materials from moth-eaten records. His acquaintance with the sites about which he writes is in every instance, first-hand, since he has traveled to see them and has interviewed resident officials and citizens on the spot. For sixteen years he has put time and effort into compiling the detail. Such precocity has resulted in a work which ought to find readers among Bostonians who are interested in local history...
...Coddling moth...