Word: pesters
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...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...
...England on the Baltic (May 28). He took with him one great conviction which guided his whole future course in France: the U. S. must have its own independent army and not serve as a "recruiting agency" for the Allies. Even before he left Washington Allied representatives began to pester him for U. S. troops to fill their ragged ranks. One long tiresome tussle ensued for the next 18 months as the A. E. F. commander resisted this continuous Allied demand. Before he ever fought the Germans, General Pershing was a veteran toughened by this form of combat against...
...Governor Roosevelt received charges filed against Mayor James John Walker by Rabbi Stephen S. Wise and Rev. John Haynes Holmes of the City Affairs Committee. The Governor threatened, as chief magistrate of the state, to jail newshawks for contempt if they continued to pester him for a premature decision. With but one allusion to the playboy Mayor's "careless standards of public life," the City Affairs Committee complained that New York's chief executive had been remiss in administering the Departments of Standards & Appeals, Licenses. Health, Hospital, Budget, Docks, in all of which have been scandals or near...
...goods last year in Argentina-Secretary Stimson did not mention. When he declared at a press conference that "this action does not represent any new policy or change of policy by the U. S.," newshawks mindful of the traditional U. S. opposition to Latin-American revolutionary governments began to pester him with demands for an explanation. Somewhat fussed, he retired to the quiet of his office, prepared a supplementary statement to prove his point. He cited the 1923 declaration of Charles Evans Hughes, then Secretary of State, to the effect that the U. S. would recognize no Central American government...