Word: wormed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brother manager and little sister Equity. Should the efforts of the dramatists prove unavailing, they propose to organize as a labor union and join the A. F. of L. Then, if either actor or manager should try to start anything with them-well, just let them try it! Another worm lias turned-a managerial one. Among the pieces which Oliver Morosco intends to try out on the Coast this summer is one called Schemers by William Irving Sirovich-a satire upon New York theatrical critics. The chief characters are Alan Gale, A. Wood Brown, James Corbett and Alex Olcott...
...saved the silk industry by solving the problem of silk worm dis- ease...
...kept alive the tradition that such natural monstrosities do exist. From the Hydra down, through Pliny's dragon which the army of Regulus besieged, and the great beast that Beowulf conquered in a battle to the death, famous stories have grown up around "facts" that science denies. The "sea-worm" was a very real object to the northern sailors, and it has flavored all the old literature of the ocean...
...unexampled audacity of the new member from the state where they smoke in the "halls of legislation" may be an indication that the worm is turning again. When the stogy, the pipe, and the "butt" obtain as strong a hold on the senatorial mouths as once had the "quid" and the "plug", the non-smoking rule perhaps will be abolished. Then a later-day Dickens looking on the majesty that is the Senate and beholding each man as a "smoke-vomiting chimney" may well be led to describe the Senate chamber as a "boundless furnace... where a suffocating wind...
...brought about in the silk industry in the province of Kwangtung. By means of lectures and demonstrations and by special courses for silk producers given at the Canton Christian College under a stipend from the Silk Association of America, a greater volume of disease-free eggs of the silk worm have been distributed to the local farmers, and an entirely new method of reeling the skeins has been adopted, so that within the last two years 80 percent of the silk production of this province has been revolutionized to the great satisfaction of the American mills, and to the profit...