Word: wasps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wreckage left by an upstate flood that had taken 42 lives. And in China the colossal Yangtze and Hwangho Rivers cut loose with a deluge of Biblical fury, drowned as many as 1,000 Chinese in a single hour, kept right on drowning them by thousands and left wasp-waisted little Chinese Dictator Chiang Kai-shek once more acutely conscious that, when the heavens are angry, praying, trembling man is no better than a water...
...women. Desire to avenge some specific injury was indicated by 32% more. Other replies: "He was a louse" (or pig, bedbug, skunk, rat, cockroach, snake). Another: "My husband had the grace of a hippopotamus, the brain of a gnat, looked like a giraffe, stung like a wasp, had the personality of a dead salmon and he smelled like a stable full of dead horses." Another: "I heard so much about the alimony jail and I wanted to see the inside so badly that I sent my husband there so that I could visit him." "Are you satisfied now that your...
...campaigns he frankly conquered by bribery, advertising what he would pay to Chinese enemy commanders who deserted to his side. Last week, however, though General Ho apparently yielded to all Japan's demands in the name of his Government, there was no confirmation from Nanking or wily, wasp-waisted little Chinese Dictator Chiang Kaishek. The entire Chinese Government kept...
...dawn the world's No. 1 airwoman climbed into her Lockheed Vega, warmed the big Wasp engine while soldiers herded horses, cows, goats, Mexicans out of the way. Then she taxied into a biting wind, lifted her three-ton ship off the ground after a perilous run of nearly two miles...
Every Dictator bedevils his people with improvements and in Nanking shrill, wasp-waisted Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek has been bedeviling Chinese schoolgirls into skirts. Last week skirted schoolgirls humbly petitioned: "At least in cold weather we beg permission to wear the warm trousers to which we were accustomed. Our new garments have resulted in cold legs...