Word: spider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...succulent spider...
...Lordship, a town near Bridgeport, Conn., a fat, succulent spider straddled, with his eight legs, two live wires; was electrocuted. Foraging ants who found the corpse haled their mates to the winter's store of meat. So many ants piled on to the spider, to be electrocuted in turn, that their massed bodies short-circuited the wires of 20 interconnected houses...
...London, brother of very-cynical-about-nothing-in-particular Author Aldous Huxley, related observations in the realm of his famed grandfather, Zoologist Thomas Henry Huxley. Courtships among low forms of life were his theme: male bristleworms wriggling in groups around females; fiddler crab bridegrooms posturing on tip-claw; hunting spider suitors offering a fly, neatly wrapped in webbing, to their prospective mates; penguins presenting bits of stone for nest-material. Professor Huxley also demonstrated that a fixed ratio exists between the members and body-weight of organisms of all sizes. A moose's antlers are in the same proportion...
...custody a dik-dik-pigmy antelope, standing but 15 inches high. Also, a pigmy mouse-bumble-bee size. From Brazil, George K. Cherrie in command of the Field Museum's expedition (which includes Mrs. Marshall Field, Mrs. Grace Thompson Seton-TIME, July 5) announced that a wolf-spider had been taken, so enormous that it could capture and devour small birds. The hunters, of whom Mrs. Field was not least active and able, had also taken glass snakes (lizards with rudimentary feet); millipedes; and a rare species of mouse opossum, tiny marsupial (pouched mammal) only 5 in. long when...
...about the countryside?Lolly made certain of Satan for what he is?a black knight wandering about succoring decayed gentlewomen; a loving huntsman who affords empty lives some adventure by pursuing their souls in all their windings, patiently, secretly, like a gentleman stalking tigers. . . . Such a delicate perfection in spider-claw prose is not published once in a crooked moon. It is the kind of book that travels from hand to hand more rapidly than news of any other kind, for there is a magic upon...