Word: swarmming
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...Grant's Minister to Belgium: indictment of both by the Adams County grand jury acting on secret new evidence. Sympathetic last year to the defendants, Natchez this year turned against them, revolted by their grotesque behavior in appearing in theatres, permitting sightseers, at 25? a head, to swarm through their ramshackle plantation, to which the Mississippi Central R. R. ran excursion trains. Each was released pending trial on $1,000 bail...
...ability; this genus of fake reaches its ultimate development in "The Prizefighter and the Lady." To begin with, Max Baer is cast in the leading role; then one finds wadded in here and there such notables as Jack Dempsey, Primo Carnera, Jess Willard, Jeffries, Strangler Lewis, and a positive swarm of middleweight, lightweight, anyweight champions, past and present. It goes without saying that most of these worthies appear for about ten seconds, and are barely visible to the naked eye; nevertheless, they are in the picture. Strangely enough, Max Baer as Stove Morgan, plays his part with a certain amount...
...Howard, who has given the gentlemanly Commandant (Paul Lukas) his word not to try to escape, tricks the gate guard down from his parapet, kills him with his own gun, mans the parapet machine-gun. Thus covered the other prisoners stampede the remaining guards, bowl over the gates and swarm to the nearby airdrome. All together they fly home while Hero Howard stays at his parapet post until blown up, thus giving his wife to Fairbanks and keeping his word to the Commandant...
...around like a grindstone, completing a circle once every 300,000,000 years. The earth is a distance of 50,000 light years from the hub of this wheel of stars. The hub or center of gravity of the mass is in the southern constellation Sagittarius, where a dense swarm of stars is located...
...Iowa, Bannery Shay Jr., protected by netting over his head and long gloves, set out to shoo a swarm of bees from a tree. A limb of the tree broke, carried the swarm to the ground. The queen bee, followed by others, crept up Shay's trouser-leg. He yanked the top of his trousers away from his middle, stood stock-still. The bees saw daylight, crawled out, buzzed away without stinging Bannery Shay...