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...widely advertised Nazi advantage was said to be the fact that grain was still too green to burn. But in some places they were reaping green corn; in others, they hauled out sprayers formerly used for pest-killing, and burned the grain with chemicals; in others, though abandoning the standing grain, they ruined agricutural machinery, depriving the Germans of the means of reaping...
...Jerome Kern, Victor Herbert's successor and equal, and the lyrics by Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II. One of their tunes moved the great Critic Percy Hammond to observe: "One song entitled Who? was attractive enough to indicate that ere the snow falls it will be a pest...
Left. By Evander Berry Wall, last of the Gay Nineties dandies, who died expatriate in Monte Carlo last May after spending millions, hobnobbing with royalty, playing poker with World War I generals, bummeling from casino to racecourse, writing his lavendered memoirs (Neither Pest nor Puritan): an estate "not exceeding...
...committee of reputable physicians had issued a report, announcing that improvements in Byberry under Dr. Woolley's rule had been "little short of miraculous." But last week, no one was more outspoken in denouncing Byberry than Superintendent Woolley. Said he: "When I came here Byberry was a medieval pest house. It's now the equal of an 18th-Century insane asylum. It's a disgrace to any community or government which calls itself civilized." Without more ado, he told the world what was wrong with his Bedlam-the most famous of all 18th-Century asylums, which London...
...Subway shelters are becoming infested with a new pest: the dainty, bloodthirsty European mosquito called Culex molestus, from the cesspools of Southern Europe...