Word: wormed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...simply darling!" Thus exclaimed one of a series of advertisements in fashionable women's magazines. The face in the copy was Harry Langdon's. His business of being simply darling consists of three gestures: 1) staring blankly like a little boy who has just found half a worm in the apple he is eating; 2) picking his teeth with his thumb and index finger; 3) waddling as if his pants were about to fall down...
...blind worm is not a worm, nor is it blind...
...nasty trick of war, a "big Wop from Peoria," Tony Rickey, became the hero of this story. In boyhood, he was a bootblack. In youth, he founded the National Bug-Killer Co., which rented to thousands of farmers, by mail, a machine guaranteed to kill each & every insect or worm. The machine consisted of two blocks of wood-"you put the bug you wanted to kill on one block and squashed him with the other." Rental $2. Tony disappeared when the Postoffice got inquisitive, and left Deacon Miscombe holding the bag. In War, Aviator Tony annoyed a German sausage balloon...
...this editorial lies in the fact that the country, getting so dangerously smug and fat with prosperity, is going to have another bitter political fight to range with those on Slavery, or the National Bank, and in this case to serve as an emetic and tonic. At last the worm, which has been turning for a long time, has accomplished the convolution. The feeling is evident in print, in the new book written by Darrow, and in the belliger out attitude of nearly all the important papers and magazines. The Civil Liberty unions have been quietly accomplishing much...
Creoles is a well-dressed romance of New Orleans in 1850. There is a convent maid who tries to seduce a handsome pirate. By this stratagem she plans to evade a villianous, worm-eaten roue who, in the manner of those times, is on the point of buying her outright from a bankrupt parent. Every now and then, Alan Dinehart, acting the buskined pirate, stamps, frowns and mutters guttural imprecations, showing that the little girl from the convent is tampering with a wicked fellow. The difficulty of her position is that the buccaneer has scruples about innocent girls...