Word: pesters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fifty ponderous pachyderms await you here, ladies and gentlemen! See them lift a man; they trumpet, they bellow and they bawl! Peanuts here, get you peanuts here!" Vag collected a few bags of peanuts, feeling a little better about things in general. At least the elephants couldn't pester him the way the fat lady did! Billy was not so excited about the elephants, thought. In fact, when Vag lifted him up so he could see better, he protested violently that he could see all right on his own feet. He wasn't that small...
...cinema serial and a comic strip in 81 daily newspapers at home and abroad, they are licensed as trade names to 53 manufacturers of everything from banks to bubble gum. So his horse will hardly be renamed. The Ranger will have to find some other way of making children pester their mothers to switch from Silvercup to Bond bread...
...students. Freshmen, who have that famous "transition from school to college" to make, may be expected to be the chief beneficiaries. It would be a grave mistake for them, however, to regard this new man as an actual substitute for the more or less theoretical Freshman Adviser, and to pester him with all sorts of questions about courses of instruction. A great new servant, one hopes, is about to be acquired, but the old deficiency, the lack of genuine scholastic counsellors for the new men, still stands, and must still be faced by the University...
...only one quarter have the "On to Alaska with Buchanan" trips stirred complaint. Many of Mr. Buchanan's boys have sisters who pester him for permission to go along. Last week the pestering sisters jumped for joy at news that Mr. Buchanan had given in, would finance a supplementary girls' trip this year. But each girl must run enough errands, bake enough pies, darn enough socks or watch enough babies to pay her third of the expenses...
...buffalo gnats (simuliidae) so called not because they attack buffaloes but because they have humps on their backs. Broad winged, black or brown bodied, they are less than half the size of a house fly. Commonest in the Mississippi Valley, they are closely related to the black flies which pester humans farther north. Buffalo gnats breed in swift-flowing streams, attaching their wormlike larvae to the downstream side of a large rock or log. After a month or six weeks the larvae spin cocoons, soon emerge full-grown. The first spell of warm weather sends them swarming to fields...