Word: swatter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pittsfield, Mass, Oct. 3--A cow's tail is worth $50, Berkshire County Commissioners decided in upholding a damage suit brought by Mark Drumm of Stockbridge against the owner of a dog that chewed the bossy's fly swatter off. The Commissioners agreed with Drumm that insect annoyance after loss of the fail reduced the cow's value as a milk given...
...ball during the first six innings of the tile, going into the last of the seventh with a comfortable lead, but the homer by Peter and errors on the part of the Puritans suddenly threw them out on the short end of the score. Norman Letarie, Winthrop's biggest swatter, chalked up another home run for himself in the seventh...
Common in Soviet cartoons is a comical little old man, always accompanied by a comical little white bird. The little old man, who has wings, flops awkwardly about, annoying Comrades who sometimes smack him with a fly swatter while the little white bird squawks in terror. The little old man is labeled "God," the little white bird "Holy Ghost" and both are kept constantly in Red cartoons by the zealous efforts of Comrade Emilian Yaroslavsky, Leader of the Society of the Godless. In Moscow last week Godless Yaroslavsky lectured Soviet youths on morals, with particular reference to the question...
...reward for his services he received 10? a Sunday. This fee was augmented when the secretary of the church paid him 1c for every 100 fly pelts he turned in after each service. Not only has Mr. Yundell been made the Guild's Official Fly-Swatter, but he has been congratulated on breaking into the "Y" sector of the roster, previously occupied only by Fielding H. Yost of Ann Arbor, Mich...