Word: turning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last year there were scarcely any June bugs in those States. That was because the beetles laid their eggs in 1927. (They prefer weedy lands or farms of small grains and timothy hay for laying.) Last year the eggs developed into grubs, which this year will turn into bugs, which next fall will deposit their store of eggs in their three-year cycle. The grubs do more farm damage than the bugs. Hence entomologists, knowing that hogs adore the juicy grubs, urge farmers to pasture swine next year in fields which are June buggy this summer...
...verse proceeds, Lindbergh describes all of his equipment, and his goal. The City of New York asks ships at sea to watch for him. The Empress of Scotland answers that she has sighted him. The fog cries out: "I am the fog, turn about." Lindbergh retorts: "That will I not." The snow storm speaks, says it has tried to destroy him, to bury him in the waters of the Atlantic. A typical passage...
...matter what their turn of mind, all Cheneys saw a Cheney-built schoolhouse and a Cheney-built library. They saw a large wooded park, around which were dotted nine large Cheney residences and a half dozen smaller Cheney houses. They saw a large expanse of Cheney-owned silk mills and warehouses. They saw block on block of Cheney-built employes' houses. But they saw no Cheney-built churches, for the Cheneys, though exceedingly moral, are no pillars of the church...
...Remarkable for his non-silken turn of mind is Bushnell Cheney (son of Horace B.), who helped launch the Jitney Players in 1923 and who remains the power behind the scenes. Last week his troupe concluded a two weeks' stand at the Cherry Lane Playhouse in Manhattan's Greenwich Village...
...will celebrate a mass. The papal motor will contain a sort of back-seat throne, where the Pope alone may sit. Facing the throne will be two chairs where high dignitaries will sit. Thus no one will sit beside the Pope and none, except, of course, the driver, will turn his back upon him when he drives through Roman streets. In such state rides no other monarch, not even Japan's "Son of Heaven" Emperor...