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...fake hold-up or automobile accident; 4) collect the insurance and pay a gunman to kill the wife of a street car motorman and; 5) marry the motorman. "I am in love with the motorman," she concluded, "and he promised to marry me." Said the motorman: "She was a pest who was riding in my car at every opportunity...
...surpassing supply of vulgar bad manners which she complacently regards as frank common sense. ... As such dowagers, male and female, are fairly common in our milieu, shouldn't the priest be pre-advised just how to mingle firmness and kindness so as to persuade this particular pest either to pipe down or to jump in the lake...
...have all thought, afterwards, of the cruelly perceptive remark we might have made, if we had just been a little quicker. How it would have pierced and hurt, how it would have silenced some parish pest! Unfortunately, there have been times when the poisonous dart lay ready to our tongue at the needful moment, and we have loosed it sharp and straight at some man's folly-but it hit his heart. It struck in those mysterious depths where each man tries to maintain a little shy and secret self-respect...
...annual spring appearance of the common housefly seemed the right time for Professor Stanley Barron Freeborn of the University of California to report the color preferences of that ubiquitous pest. It appeared that fly paper should be bright orange, a shade all flies like best; that tablecloths should be pale green, the least liked color. Dr. Freeborn, specialist in sheep & poultry parasites, conducted his housefly balloting by exposing a big rectangular board divided into squares of different colors, counting the number of insects which alighted on each (without taking repeaters into account). The vote: orange, 10,572; primrose yellow...
...theatre and the press," Governor Mutschmann broadened his theme, pulled out all the emotional stops: "It must constantly be pointed out that the Jewish question is the key to world history and we must not show any yielding in that question. No day must pass on which this World Pest is not characterized as such...