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...resurrect Inspiration, which credits women with inspiring great men through the ages. "That's enough of that Oriental stuff," cries Betty as Composer Rimsky-Korsakov's wife. "Just look around you in your own backyard." Suddenly she sees a backyard bee, screams, and Adolph frantically pursues the pest while buzz-buzzing The Flight of the Bumblebee...
...given his country prosperity, has whipped rising inflation, boosted pensions, introduced a national health service, proved a stout friend of the U.S. and Britain. But stolid, unimaginative Bob Menzies himself has never been personally popular. His chronic testiness ("He must be drunk or paid to come here as a pest," he angrily shouted at a heckler) has not helped him much. When his car was spattered with eggs in Sydney, even the usually progovernment Melbourne Herald blandly refused to remonstrate. "At election time," it said, "it is permissible to be cynical. Indeed it is almost obligatory...
Reason behind this unlikely procedure is the pest's fatal weakness: the female mates only once. If a female happens to mate with a sterile male, she will lay nothing but infertile eggs for the rest of her short (three weeks) life. The U.S. Department of Agriculture scientists concluded that if males could be sterilized and released in large number, they would find the fertile females, mate with them, and thus eliminate them permanently as progenitors...
...leisurely years before radio and the airliner. "I am not an explorer," said Holmes. "The South Pole belongs to Byrd and Amundsen, and they can have it." He filled his Manhattan apartment with exotic curios and burnished idols, and called it Nirvana; his wife called it Buddha-pest...
...cheats at his exams, cheats on his wife Marion (whom he calls "a scheming slut"), cheats a succession of easy conquests, from barmaids to old maids. When one of them laments "It's adultery," Dangerfield comforts her: "One mortal sin is the same as another." He is the pest of the Coombe, Dublin's slum area, among whose tolerant denizens it is very hard indeed to become a pest...