Word: worming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Britain's long, lean Labor worm turned decisively last week. Over their kippers, toast and China tea bloated stockbrokers and belted earls read in their Tory Daily Telegraph this horrid news: "In three days organized British Labor has undergone a swift, violent transition from nonrevolutionary to revolutionary policy...
...York's moths were snow-white linden moths (Ennomos subsignarius) of the measuring-worm or elm-span family (Geometridae). In the caterpillar stage they live on leaves, preferably elm and linden, and also like lettuce salad. Having but two pairs of prolegs. the worms push themselves with their hind legs until they are humped like a croquet wicket, then slide their front ends forward. Grown fat, they spin a thread, slide down it to the ground, snooze under fallen leaves. Early in July the moth emerges, seeks company, goes off whichever way the wind is blowing. Last week...
...leech is a form of worm which lives on blood, can absorb as much as three or four times its body weight. Around its mouth is a sucker surrounded by a network of strong muscles. It makes a triangular incision in its victim, clamps on the sucker, pumps out the blood the while secreting a ferment which prevents the blood from coagulating. In tropical countries leeches attack men and beasts; in Western Asia, Southern Europe, North Africa they are imbibed in drinking water, cause hemorrhages, nosebleed, headache, asphyxia. They are hermaphrodites. In the U. S. they are retailed in some...
Just Fishing is a compendium of ways & means of catching trout, bass, pike and lesser U. S. fish, annotated with incidents from Author Ray Bergman's copious fishing notebooks. Unlike most expert anglers. Author Bergman considers worm-fishing for trout permissible, particularly ! for beginners. He starts his book with a chapter telling how to do it. An expert worm fisherman told him how to bait the hook: " 'Catch hold of the skin at two places . . . so the ends will wiggle. Some fellers claim that the point of the hook showin' scares the fish but that...
Approval of worm-fishing is not Author Bergman's only angling heresy. He considers wet fly fishing "as a finished art . . . much harder to master than dry fly fishing. ' Quoting directly from his field notes, Author Bergman tells about nights spent fishing Brandy Brook in the Adirondacks, days in which he did no fishing at all but sat watching a small stretch of stream to find out how its trout acted. Three years later he caught a trout in this part of the brook for the first time. Profoundly observant. Author Bergman caught trout...