Word: worm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...largest in town, a gala affair by attending. Legislators and diplomats aplenty were in the house, but what most pleased President William Fox of the Fox Film Corporation and impressario Samuel Lionel Rothafel was the President's demonstrative enjoyment of third program, especially a revival of the Glow Worm number from Composer Paul Lincke's ballet Lysisprata...
...come 10,000 miles from its northern worm, raw silk and silk goods, silk for hose and gown and pajama and whatnot. Chinese had tended it; Japanese had borne it across the Pacific of which commerce they are masters. It had arrived at Vancouver, safely unloaded from the N. Y. K.'s* Paris Marn. Safely it was stored in an 18-car train of the Canadian Pacific-$6,000,000 of silk. The world first heard of it when $1,500,000 of it (five car loads) lay wrecked and storm-strewn in the valley of Frazer River, only...
That the ardent book-worm who mistakes the pits for the subterranean halls of Widener may not be drowned by the accumulated rains of Cambridge, the conduit is drained into a pit back of the New Lecture Hall. Here also is the fork in the tunnel which leads to the Peabody Museum. Traces of all this renovation may be found in sporadic puffs of steam near Memorial Hall and in increased comfort in the altered buildings...
...bastard son. This black thread in their life's pattern is accompanied by the incessant nagging of the wizened humpbacked sister. In the spinsters' parlor-desert their scandal festers almost to the end. The dreariness of their tragedy is incongruously shattered by Marie Carroll, who, as the worm-eaten, twisted sister, insists upon breaking forth into pert, lovable antics of the ingenue type, known to all stock companies. The audience laughed when it should have commiserated...
Moses cautioned them to gather no more manna than they needed for one meal, not to keep any overnight. "But some of them left it until the morning and it bred worms and stank." Moses was vexed. The Lord's instructions had been to gather a two-day supply on Fridays so as not to have to work on the Sabbath. This they did, kept it over Friday night, and lo, "it did not stink, neither was there any worm therein...