Word: vermin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...poor, degraded, mean electorate?wants to cut down on the vested interests of the comparatively rich Roman Catholic Church in Mexico and of the very rich foreign corporations. From every oil well he sees rising a dour genie, and in every baptismal font he sees swimming a school of vermin. For the business interests U. S. Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg has been the nervous advocate; for the Church, Bishop Diaz has been the obstreperous protagonist. President Calles has been sending Secretary Kellogg temporizing notes; Bishop Diaz he threw out of Mexico. In the U. S. Bishop Diaz will...
...passionate but unavailing prayers, last week, as a typhus epidemic spreading from the Arab slums of Fez entered at last the cool and sumptuous palace of the Sultan Mulai Yusef, where such luxuries as fountains, tinkling behind screens of marble fretwork, lull the inhabitants into a disregard of occasional vermin potentially laden with typhus bacilli...
...stepped one Bert Batchelor, doughty wheelwright: "Those poor dogs are ours. . . . We are the Holmwood Hunt. Saving your displeasure, the Surrey Union Hunt has ridden out so seldom of late that the foxes are getting thicker and stealing our poultry and stock. We have a license to kill vermin, and we thought we might as well have a bit of sport while we were about it. . . . So far we've shot eleven foxes. . . ." British correspondents had not the heart to continue the story of aristocratic discomfiture beyond that point. Their despatches chronicled one final infamy: The Holmwood Huntsmen are wont...
...Airedale terrier was first bred in the valley of the River Aire (tributary to the Ouse), in England. The old English Terrier, a strong, fearless dog, good for vermin and dead game, lacked a good sense of smell. So the people of the Aire valley crossed it with the Otter Hound, making it keen-scented and giving it better watermanship. Other crosses were made to improve the breed. The dogs were first known as Waterside Terriers. The Airedale Agricultural Society, at a farm show, held the first exhibition of this class of dogs in 1879, and decided to give them...
Accordingly, the Treasury Department requested Congress for $275,000 to be used to destroy an outbreak of plague among rats reported at New Orleans. Trapping, watching, fumigating are to be resorted to to suppress the disease among the vermin and prevent any chance of its spreading to humans. Presumably Congress will accept the Treasury Department bid, although it is somewhat higher than the Pied Piper's flat rate of 1,000 guilders* an extinction...