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...spider in Little Miss Muffitt and the lupine ancestress in Little Red Riding Hood breed fear-complexes...
...should "disseminate among their fellow creatures a considerable portion of their income," adding that the art of spending was as difficult as the art of saving. They tried to lose by backing a musical comedy, an open-air theatre, a golf club. Always, miserably, they profited. Mr. Oppenheim-King Spider, spinner of a thousand diabolical detective tales -here chuckles with the reader in an elaborated humorous anecdote, borrrowed from George Barr McCutcheon...
...championship of the Women's Western Golf Association. Her score for the three days' play was 256. Her nearest competitors were Miss Virginia Wilson with 264, Mrs. Dave Gaut (272), Mrs. Lee Mida, defending champion (274). The one-time Elaine Rosenthal is the wife of S. L. ("Spider") Reinhart, famed Yale footballer, shot putter and boxer of half a decade ago. She previously won the Women's Western...
...plant may have been one of the sources of supply of purple dye obtained by the Greeks. A second uncommon plant which we came across was the barilla, the leaves of which glisten as though make of ice. From it the gatherers obtain soda. Specimens of a large, black, spider, is lycosa ingens were found. This spider is smaller than the Cuban tarantula and notable for its coal blackness...
...bound him so securely in his dealings with the Admiralty Board and the War Office. It is apparent that he had no idea of the limits of the possible within a bureaucratic government; in other words he was the optimistic fly in the red tape web of the Government spider...