Word: roaches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crew quickly recovered from first fright, looked out the portholes. They saw "steel-like fangs of ice moving stealthily through the water, which changes in color . . . throughout the entire range of blues." They saw prawn-like and cock-roach-shaped creatures, sea fleas, medusa jelly fish. Through compression chambers they took samples of water and bottom sludge...
...Author. Morris Leopold Ernst, 43 last fortnight, was born in Alabama, got his general education at Williams College, his law at New York University. He is swarthy, small and solidly built. Membership in the "Dr. John Roach Straton's Sunday Morning Bowling & Breakfast Club" has not prevented a gentle paunch. He is a swift thinker, an eager talker. To him, as to Lawyer Arthur Garfield Hays. Liberals, workers, writers and bohemians look for championship & defense. Other books: (with others) To the Pure: History of Obscenity ; Censored: Private Life of the Movies (TIME, March...
Oliver Hardy's father was an Atlanta, Ga. politician. Oliver was graduated from the University of Georgia Law School but preferred to sing for his living. He went into cinema from vaudeville, joined the Hal Roach (Our Gang) company in 1926. In 1927, he stopped using the nickname "Babe," changed to Oliver for numerological reasons. In 1927, also, he met Stan Laurel. They formed an immediate partnership, now have a song about it: "Ham & Eggs, Salt & Pepper, Bread & Butter, Laurel & Hardy, United we stand-divided we flop...
There is some justification for skepticism as to the value of ultra-scholarly research. To the layman, study of the wood-feeding roach, Cryptocerus punctuates Scudder, seems futile. Work on obscure points of history irritates a "practical" mind. In all probability, however, much more of this research than is commonly supposed has a practical value; and in any case, it is the work which renews the mental vitality in a college...
Score--Pennsylvania 25, Harvard 24. Goals--Tanseer 5, Sander 3, Ashka 1, Farrell 2, Hageman 2, Holland 2, Pattison 2, Rauh 1, Fouls--Sander 4, Peterson 2, Roach 1, Hageman 3, Holland 1, Pattison 1, Rauh 1. Referee--Degnan. Umpire--Kinney. Time--two 20-minute periods...