Word: wasps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evening's brightest spot is the song and dance concerning the days "When Gentlemen Wore Whiskers and Ladies Grew Old." The men with beard-swathed faces, the girls with wasp waists and bustles, do a burlesque which is positively classic. It alone would be worth the price of admission and the sacrifice of an evening's time, even if "Judy" were no good. Fortunately, however, because of its refreshing informality and its speed, "Judy" is good...
...causing her lip to bleed. A curious insect -or reptile -about a quarter of an inch long, badly mangled by Miss Puree's teeth, lay upon the floor. Miss Puree declared that it was a lizard; the manager of the restaurant held that it was merely a roach, wasp or centipede, that its evil look was due to its own, not to Miss Puree's blood. Miss Puree brought suit against the Horn & Hardart Co., asked $2,000 for the "mental and physical anguish" she had undergone as a result of the beastly sandwich. The court, explaining that...
...stung in the arm by a wasp...
...College Royal Gaboon, the Pitt Panther, the Lehigh Burr, the Columbia Jester, the Rutgers Chanticleer, the Johns Hopkins Black and Blue Jay, the Carnegie Tech Puppet, the New York University Medley, the Boston University Bean Pot, the Williams Purple Cow, the Middlebury Baboon, the Amherst Lord Jeff, the Wesleyan Wasp, the Lafayette Liar and the Stevens Stone Mill...
...Scorpion is typical both of his method as a naturalist and of the charm of his style-a style which fascinates many a reader to whom a technical book on entomology would be anathema. The other insects that he studied include the spider, fly, mason-bee, bramble-bee, hunting wasp, ant, grasshopper, caterpillar, mason-wasp, weevil, glowworm, sacred beetle and other beetles. Fabre struggled for nearly 40 years, teaching physics, chemistry and mathematics (not the subjects that he loved) in provincial schools in Corsica and Avignon and writing textbooks to raise a large family and secure a modest competence that...