Word: swarmed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Three rooms give on the sitting-room of this squalid pension, each of which by itself is a cell of drama. Many more embryo plots sneak in through the front door, the back door, down the stairway, or just happen in the alleyway outside. They tangle themselves into a swarm of ugly, writhing life, sticky and sordid, grimy with bitter wisecracks and cruelly shot through with flashes of vagrant, tender beauty...
...carries a malaria germ of artistic small talk; Jennie and Pete, lower order of flies-by-night invited on the party by Patricia, a young mosquito who, none the less, administers the most powerful sting. Other insects-an author, a smalltime poet with a dull buzz, a sculptor-swarm drowsily in the lethargic air. Love affairs, talk, small business, occupy their time until they all go home again to New Orleans...
...President's period of summer relaxation. At Spencer, Iowa, a delegation of 50 Iowans met Colonel Starling, took him on a tour through the vicinity of Spirit Lake. Colonel Starling, with many a prospective site yet to see, neither encouraged nor discouraged the Floete "boom." ?A swarm of bees which settled in a tree on the White House grounds last October were identified by government bee culturists as the same swarm which last October escaped from the grounds of the Smithsonian Institution...
Triple Crossed. With an unexpectedly loaded pistol, murder is done on the stage. The play halts. Policemen swarm in. The entire audience is under arrest and suspect. From this sanguine beginning the play proceeds through an ingenious labyrinth of surprises that would have been far more spine-chilling if The Spider (TIME, April 4) had not arrived first in Manhattan with much the same formula. A horde of unnamed actors are planted in the audience to be yanked from their seats, shoot from the balcony and participate generally in what looks like an impromptu actors' tong...
Upon these hotels workmen were plastering furiously last week, tacking shingles like a swarm of mad woodpeckers. Some two score homes stood finished, furnished and occupied; but civil servants mostly slept at hotels after their 429-mile trip from Melbourne. Like barnyard fowls unused to migrating, which have suddenly been shooed from one coop into another, the employes of the Commonwealth of Australia were cackling many a minor protest last week; but the approach of a royal personage stilled all complaints...