Word: whirligig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Park one afternoon last week they blasted out a vast sump, of which they planned to make a mosquito-proof "wildlife oasis." If mosquito larvae in the abaters' sump don't watch out, the bladderwort plant will get them. If insectivorous plants don't get them, whirligig beetles, back swimmers, dragonfly nymphs and top-water minnows will. Ditches get stagnant and mosquito-filled. It is hoped and expected that from Palos Park's hole in the ground no single adult mosquito will fly-for which the valley's residents may thank their itching stars...
Manhattan Merry-Go-Round (Repub-lic). A catchpenny musical whirligig cir-cularizing Leo Carrillo, Phil Regan, Ann Dvorak and James Gleason, with bursts of crooning, hoofing, variety specialties, a baseball game (with a glimpse of Baseballer Joe Di Maggio), a rodeo. Brass rings: Tamara Geva (Chauve-Souris, Flying Colors, On Your Toes) as an opera singer; Cab Galloway's "Yascha"; Ted Lewis' "Baby" still smiling at him; Gene Autry, the singing cowboy, reminding folks that it is Round Up Time in Reno...
...cannot but be impressed by his sincerity. Governor Landon is an earnest man; in nothing is he more in earnest than peace. He proposes no sure-fire panaceas for complicated problems; that is not his forte. But he sees little use in being a kite tied to the League whirligig; he cannot envision "a war to stop war". Concretely, he proposes the greatest possible use of arbitration, lower tariffs, and taking of profits out of war. Further, he believes in neutrality and a pacific policy at all times, not hardened by all-embracive legislation into a glove which will...
...poet who uses "Communion both as a stimulus and as a kind of relief from irritation," and in doing so he may well have yielded, as he suggests while speaking of the Communist movement in contemporary letters, to a passing fashion, since the literary world has its whirligig of fashion, even as the world of dress. He is good in his criticism of his associates, and, by implications, of himself, too, so that the reader is not unduly sanguine who expects him to fulfill the promise of this present volume in later years when Time shall have made...
...Some were frankly "tipster services," flashing advice to clients to invest this way or that on the basis of legislative acts or guesses. Others are simply news letters on a smaller scale than the big three. McClure Newspaper Syndicate issues a confidential collection of slangy jottings called "The National Whirligig-News Behind the News" by Reporter Paul Mallon. W. F. Ardis, one-time associate of Whaley-Eaton, is in business for himself. One which has disappeared was called Federal Trade Information Service. Countless are bulletins published by various trade lobbies, to post members on matters of special interest...