Word: worming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...party of 46 Senators and Representatives, their ladies, sailed away from Seattle last week aboard the American Mail Liner President Grant as the official guests of the Philippine Commonwealth to the inauguration of President Manuel Quezon next month, everyone was as happy as a jay bird with a worm...
Reason: the Eastern Army, striving to bite its way in from Assab on the Red Sea to cut Ethiopia's only railway near Dire Dawa, (see p. 17), faces obstacles of terrain all but insurmountable. It must skirt the blazing, uninhabitable Danakil Desert, worm its way up jagged mountain gorges, cross fever-ridden swamps. Only chance for quick success depended on bribing the local Ethiopian satrap, Ras Yayou, who styles himself "Sultan of Aussa...
...characterized by brevity. He holds the all-time record for extraordinary longevity. "Elijah the Tishbite" Elijah, the Tishbite, Couldn't make the fish bite; 'Lowed he was using the wrong kind of bait. First tried a dry fly, then tried a wet fly, Then tried a worm and he caught six or eight...
...Prohibition had ruined the Islanders- by destroying their chief means of livelihood, the manufacture of rum." This is one of the several moldy chestnuts over which every weekending special correspondent who ever visited these Islands smacks his lips, totally ignorant that the kernel carries within it a crawly worm of error. He has read what the next preceding correspondent said and he repeats it to show what a thorough study he has made of the economic conditions of the Islands. It sounds impressive, but the truth is that the export of rum never amounted to much, if any, more than...
...face, many a Sweitzer friend could hardly believe the news. A few recalled that, on a salary of $9,000 a year, he had run through a long series of spectacular business failures. But Bob Sweitzer himself made a great show of unconcern. Blithe as a jaybird with a worm, he continued going to afternoon baseball games, banquets, told newshawks: "I'm not worried, only annoyed. I will ask for a reasonable time to check the audit. . . . There are some controversial items...