Word: swarm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bull-Necked Males. "The creature familiar as Superman is the leader of a swarm of satellites separated from him only by a copyright. Scores of comic books feature similar characters-for example, Catman, Bullet Man, The Human Torch, Captain Midnight, Captain Marvel, Black Terror, Blue Beetle, Green Lama, Yankee Boy, Bogey Man-which follow the Superman pattern of a 'hero' who overcomes all obstacles with machine-like precision. Often, victory comes from frankly preternatural powers . . . propulsion and X-ray vision: these heroes' bull necks are often a pretty fair index of their intellectual prowess...
...ride around the farm, The flies so numerous, they did swarm. One chanced to bite him on the thigh; The devil take the blue-tail...
...MacArthur has moved into Japan, he will be Supreme Allied Commander there. This occupation will be totally different from that of Germany; there will be no "military government" as such. But MacArthur presumably will have under him a chief military superviser, a political adviser, regional chiefs, and a swarm of other functionaries. Already lined up were such able men as Brigadier General William E. Crist, who has been military governor of Okinawa, and Colonel Sidney F. Mashbir, who has made a career of knowing the Japanese in peace...
Horse Lovers. In Newmarket, England, a racehorse auctioneer found himself unable to keep up with the spirited semaphoring of the bidders, finally suspended the auction, then learned that his patrons were swatting at a swarm of gnats...
Said Major Charles Biddle, World War I ace (seven planes), Philadelphia lawyer, cousin of Francis (lately Attorney General) and a swarm of other Philadelphia Biddles: "There would appear to be no good reason why Mr. Bitle should be permitted to . . . give the impression he was of English origin...