Word: pest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pest Control. In Taunton, Mass., 63-year-old Maryann Bettencourt routed three armed housebreakers by threatening them with an insecticide...
...been 50 years since the twin cities of Buda and Pest had been welded into one, and the city fathers wanted some commemorative music. They chose a black-bearded Hungarian named Zoltan Kodaly (rhymes with so high) to write it. The Psalmus Hungaricus that he wrote for the occasion is still considered by some critics the finest choral work of the 20th Century...
...Passed a bill to compensate farmers for not producing potatoes and tomatoes in areas infected by the golden nematode pest (prevalent mostly in New York State...
...Nice Pest." The trouble with the first two radio versions was that they strayed too far from the original of Sally Benson's bobbysoxer. The first try (1942), starring Shirley Temple, cost a weighty $12,000 a week, an expenditure that overshot the show's modest Hooperating. A second attempt (1946) made Judy into such an unpleasant young monster that listeners stopped listening. "After all," sputters Author Benson in recollection, "Junior Miss Judy Graves is a nice little girl-a pest, but a nice pest. . ." The new Junior Miss is neither overweight nor out of focus...
Janus the Owl. In Decatur, Ill., the Starling Pest Control Co. was selling an odd item-a two-faced aluminum bird. The price: $10. The company said that when placed in trees or on buildings, its metal owls would frighten pestiferous starlings away. It boasted that an owl placed every half-block was enough...