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...Odessa, Mo., one Farmer Shupee, his wife, son and daughter-in-law were attacked in their auto by a swarm of bees. Mrs. Shupee at the wheel, sorely stung, sideswiped the car ahead, drove into a ditch, killed Farmer Shupee...
...Columbus, Ohio, seat of Ohio State University, there swarmed last week a swarm of some 2,000 chemists?the 77th annual meeting of the American Chemical Society. To the public, chemistry is chemistry. To initiates there are dozens of kinds of chemistry. All kinds were represented and talked about at Columbus: Organic chemistry and physical chemistry; photochemistry, electrochemistry; medicinal, biological, agricultural and food, cellulose, boiler-room, petroleum chemistry...
...calm. By the pier of the Albany Yacht Club, the river's grey-green surface had been transformed into dirty, bubbly whipped cream. A fleet of 133 little launches, each with an outboard motor attached, was milling about, racing its engines, darting hither and yon like a swarm of noisy water beetles. Finally Commodore William B. Eldridge appeared on the balcony of the Yacht Club building. The boats lined up under the railroad bridge. The Commodore fired a pistol. With a shrill spattering sound the boats streaked down the Hudson. As each passed the balcony its time was marked...
...stars shone peacefully down, aloof, unperturbed, unperturbable. Beneath, a swarm of writhing, punching, scratching, squealing, black-skinned creatures did battle with four white spectres of the law. Confusion reigned, skulls were rapped and knuckles barked; black men screeched and white men cursed. . . . The stars were those that stud the ceiling of Manhattan's Grand Central Station. The battle was between Negro porters and detectives who had raided a "policy" (lottery) game...
...Pittsburgh a conglomerate swarm padded about the galleries, grouped itself according to tastes before 381 paintings. Esthetes looked at landscapes, still life, murmured abstrusely of planes, tonality, feeling. Paintings from these categories won most of the prizes. The great philistine majority, as usual, neglected pots, petunias, pastures; it preferred pictures containing human figures...