Word: verminous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shifted their anchorage. One night there was a terrific shindy; next morning the prisoners learned their captors had been hijacked by bandits. The change made little difference to them. As they picked up more of the language they heard many a bloodthirsty threat. Aside from cramped quarters, boredom, vermin, bad food, the hardest thing they had to endure was hair-pulling, nose-and- ear-tweaking. The bandits delighted in calling them names. When asked what was the English for an obscene Chinese epithet, Author Johnson replied: "Parlez vous français?" "They were delighted and they spend their time saying...
...conclusive enough to result in the eventual electrocution of the thugs. But there will first be the long hullabaloo of a trial, the endless appeals and decisions, and all the rest of the involved and expensive claptrap which our highly advanced civilization finds necessary in the extermination of its vermin...
...soon lost five-sixths of a $6,000,000 fortune, soon blossomed out as a bigtime stock manipulator with a taste for hot birds, cold bottles, fast horses and the flashiest Broadway cabarets. So notorious were his corporate nuisance suits that J. P. Morgan the Elder denounced him as "vermin...
...Newark, N. J., a salesman entered Mrs. Carrie Baukin's millinery shop, asked her to let him demonstrate his sulphur candles for killing vermin by fumes, lit a sample candle. Mrs. Baukin ran in tears to the street, returned when the fumes had cleared to find no salesman, no money in the cash register...
...bins discharge slowly through a s-ft. pipe into a tin pie plate as the birds empty it. The device is fastened about two feet from the ground, enclosed in natural-looking brush. Four openings are left in the brush so the birds may make a hasty exit when vermin come in. Put out on Christmas morning, one feeder was reported three days later to have attracted thousands of birds...