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Herbert H. Hicks: P.B.H., Photographic Society, Pre-Medical Society, Bell Weevil Club...
When a whim gets into big (250 pounds), jolly Congressman Frank Boykin, it sits there gnawing like a boll weevil until he does something about it. Like when he was 16, a poof farm boy, and got the urge to make money. Frank went out, became one of Alabama's biggest lumber and turpentine tycoons, and made himself a few million. Or like the other day, when he got the idea he should do something for his old pal, Speaker Sam Rayburn...
...ghosts of Ruddigore had shouted: "Coward, poltroon, shaker, squeamer, blockhead, sluggard, dullard, dreamer, shirker, shuffler, crawler, creeper, sniffler, snuffler, waller, weeper, earthworm, maggot, tadpole, weevil...
...five times as deadly as DDT (TIME, May 28, 1945). It has an unpleasant naphthalene smell, lacks DDT's lasting effect. It is particularly potent against cockroaches, proved effective in checking a locust plague in Sardinia this spring, and has shown promise against the cotton boll weevil. But in the sunny U.S. climate it has been generally less lethal than in foggy Britain...
...Weevils & Bulls. The Lomaxes followed The Boll Weevil Song ("Boll Weevil done et my cotton, done started in on my corn") from Texas to the Atlantic, recording a different version of the little bug at each stop. They went to Tennessee for the sad saga of Coal Creek mine disasters ("No more pay days at Coal Creek...