Word: pest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...surpassing supply of vulgar bad manners which she complacently regards as frank common sense. ... As such dowagers, male and female, are fairly common in our milieu, shouldn't the priest be pre-advised just how to mingle firmness and kindness so as to persuade this particular pest either to pipe down or to jump in the lake...
...annual spring appearance of the common housefly seemed the right time for Professor Stanley Barron Freeborn of the University of California to report the color preferences of that ubiquitous pest. It appeared that fly paper should be bright orange, a shade all flies like best; that tablecloths should be pale green, the least liked color. Dr. Freeborn, specialist in sheep & poultry parasites, conducted his housefly balloting by exposing a big rectangular board divided into squares of different colors, counting the number of insects which alighted on each (without taking repeaters into account). The vote: orange, 10,572; primrose yellow...
...theatre and the press," Governor Mutschmann broadened his theme, pulled out all the emotional stops: "It must constantly be pointed out that the Jewish question is the key to world history and we must not show any yielding in that question. No day must pass on which this World Pest is not characterized as such...
Edward of Wales, leaving Vienna behind (see above), arrived last week in Hungary's capital, did the rounds of Pest on the flat east bank of the Danube, then the rounds of Buda on its hill on the west bank. All Budapest joined the usual peekaboo chase after H. R. H.-all except the rickety old Hungarian aristocrats who spend their days steaming stark naked in the hot springs pool of Gellert's Municipal Baths in Buda.* There, far from the grand hotels and cafés of Pest where Edward was disporting himself, the old Magyars went...
...less than 6,000,000 people still live in slavery. He called Catholic attention to "the importance of the Church anti-slavery program as enunciated by Pope Leo XIII"-who in 1888 exhorted his Brazilian bishops to banish slavery from their country in an encyclical flaying "the accursed pest of servitude" and ordering an annual anti-slavery collection taken in Catholic churches...