Word: vermin
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...duPont de Nemours & Co., Inc., powder-makers, offered $2,500 in merchandise prizes to the individual or club which, at the end of a three months' season, has killed the most crows or other birds or animals termed "vermin" in the prospectus of their competition. To prove the verminosity of the crow, an expedition of the duPont company went to the islands off the Virginia coast, habitat of the "fish crow"-peculiarly vicious. Many notable men have sprung, indignant, to the crow's defense. To his people of the State of Maine, Governor Percival Proctor Baxter made proclamation...
...Transport Workers) are violently opposed to the I. S. U. (International Seamen's Union) and .the Federation of Labor (which they call the Fakeration). The same num-ber of The Marine Worker refers to the pie-cards (i. e. paid officials) of the I. S. U. as " these vermin/' speaks of their " slimy tactics," calls them grafters and pimps and other names. Ships' officers are termed " crimps" (i. e. men who sign seamen on ships), and " scissorbills " (conservatives, not members of the I. W. W.), and "finks" (scabs...
...methods of living. However fortunate we have been in the past, we cannot now afford to relax our vigilance against future peril. Two deaths have been reported in New York City, the first fatalities resulting from the typhus since 1892; health officials at that city have detected scores of vermin-bearing immigrants admitted through the port of Boston. Although the co-operation of the Italian Health Service shows important progress, it by no means precludes danger from other sections of the continent. The immigration authorities can do not better than to follow Italy's lead in handling the situation...
...never before the current number has he set himself up as a crusader. Now he has dropped his wonted jollity and dedicated himself to that "stern god, Caustic Alkali." He has shed his Jester's trappings, has taken on a snake skin, and, with adder's blood, pursues the vermin. phrosyne sits alone at home...
Lampy totters on the threshold of reform. Would it not be better to revert to the old maxim, "Nothing is new, nothing is true, and nothing matters?" and like the Pied Piper of Hamlin, lure with sweet music the rats and the vermin from their haunts, to be drowned in the scum of the Charles...