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That droning--an airplane? Japs? Germans? Reds? It swells and fades, angry, important, businesslike. Ah, a wasp, or is it a hornet, zooms gracefully through the window and roars headlong into the closet. Sudden silence. Probably sampling the various gravy and beer spots on the Vagabond's suit. That'll hold him for a while--maybe kill him. The Vagabond relaxes: let's see, history review today. Damn, action again. The wasp-hornet breezes out of the closet, squats on the bowl of a pipe, sharpens up his stinger with his hind legs, hums contentedly to himself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 6/1/1938 | See Source »

This afternoon the Vagabond will visit the Coop--with a purpose. There he will purchase a flyswatter, mosquito netting, sticky paper, the most deadly exterminator, and the biggest Flit gun available. If that wasp or any more of the air corps drops in for a call tomorrow morning, they are going to catch a warm reception. The ground forces will be prepared...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 6/1/1938 | See Source »

...Casey?" wasp-waisted little wives whispered into their husbands' sideburns as young De Wolf Hopper recited the last stanza of a poem called Casey at the Bat in Wallack's Theatre on Broadway one summer night in 1888. It was a gala baseball night in honor of the visiting Chicago White Stockings and the management had clipped the tragi-comic verses out of the San Francisco Examiner for young Hopper to deliver as an added fillip between the acts of the operetta, Prince Methusalem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mudville Man | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

Fast. Flying a 14-cylinder, 1,200 h.p. Twin-Wasp Sever sky that won him the Bendix Trophy for 1937, California's Frank W. Fuller last week whizzed out of Vancouver, crossed 20 miles of Canada, 1,184 miles of U. S. and penetrated 5 miles into Mexico, landing at Agua Caliente 4 hours, 54 minutes after his takeoff. Flyer Fuller cut 34 minutes off the best previous time for linking the three North American nations, claimed to have used but 670 h.p. in his flight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Records, Nov. 15, 1937 | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

...revealed yesterday that no complications have as yet developed or are expected to develop in the case of H. Putnam Williams '39, goalguard of the Varsity soccer team. Williams played the fourth period of the game against Princeton Saturday with a wasp in his pants...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "NEVER AGAIN" SAYS GOALIE; PLAYED WITH WASP IN PANTS | 11/3/1937 | See Source »

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