Word: verminously
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...More Game Birds in America foundation opened its offices fortnight ago in Manhattan. Unlike most other bird societies, its aim is propagation of birds rather than conservation. The members believe that U. S. game birds are being destroyed by "vermin" and starved, not shot to death. Land drainage, which has dried up the marshy places where ducks feed, is partly responsible for the fact that there are only about one and three-quarters wild ducks left for every U. S. citizen. Inspired by the British system whereby game birds have increased 900% since the War, Mr. Knapp has formulated...
...germ, Bacillus pestis. Fleas bite the rats, then carry the bacilli to man's habitations, his clothes, his body. To prevent the disease, rodents must be exterminated and their fleas kept from humans through personal hygiene. Drs. Long and Eskey cleaned Guayaquil by drastically cleaning the city of vermin and teaching the inhabitants personal cleanliness. Their next chore, upon which they are already started: to derat, deflea, deplague Peru...
...will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man." And from the famed nursery tale, Gulliver's Travels, by Dean Jonathan Swift: "I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives [mankind] to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth...
...with the Monk, who had been summoned to answer to the Cabinet for his gross immorality. "He ran his pale eyes over me," declared Stolypin, "mumbled mysterious and inarticulate words from the Scriptures, made strange movements with his hands, and I began to feel an indescribable loathing for this vermin sitting opposite me. Still I did realize that the man possessed great hypnotic power, which was beginning to produce a fairly strong moral impression on me. ... I was able to pull myself together...
When the Gooding subcommittee reported formally, it said it had found "serious" conditions but no starvation. It particularized about shooting, housing, filth, vermin, Negro strikebreakers, coal and iron police, demoralized eviction camps. It implicitly blamed the operators for letting such conditions arise. It called the miners courageous. It recommended that the coal industry be legislated back to prosperity...