Word: verminous
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...Lice Throwers" specialized in vermin. Every Saturday night they would hunt for "the biggest specimens." For twelve super-lice, the club paid one mark. On Sunday morning each member lined up for inspection holding a prize louse between finger and thumb. As the Kommandoführer marched down the ranks, members saluted smartly, thereby snapping the "live dose of itch" in his direction. After endless practice on an old overcoat, the prisoners could hit the Kommandoführer "below the belt" once in three tries...
...clothes and college texts have great sentimental value. Unfortunately they can not be bound in pastel-pink ribbons, and filed away as neatly as love letters. Hungry moths and avid vermin are too liable to corrupt such earthly treasures. Hence they often pad the maws of ashcans and end their usefulness in dumps. For a cherished garment or a much-thumbed book, that fate is bitter. Far better to fling both clothes and texts, with a gesture of sublime extravagance, into the eager coffers of the Brooks House Old Clothes Drive which are secreted in the janitor's office...
...necessary to make us appreciate our duties, bring back the troops from the hellholes of the world, place them in the factories-take the war workers and place them in the foxholes with filth, vermin, diarrhea, malaria and the Japanese, and I will guarantee you that our production will be increased, and much of it doubled, within 30 days. We would have no more featherbedding, no more slowdowns, no more restrictions on effort...
...Other recent Stokes scoops: the indictment of the "vermin press" (TIME, Aug. 3); the grand jury investigation of George Sylvester Viereck, now in prison for failing to register as a Nazi agent; the story of how mailbags were removed from the office of Prescott Dennett (now under indictment for conspiracy to promote revolt in the armed forces) after a grand jury had subpoenaed them...
...press, which is quick to cry out against anything that looks like interference with press freedom, last week applauded the Government's crackdown on Editor Griffin, along with the publishers of 29 other "vermin" sheets (including Scribner's Commentator) named in the indictment...