Word: worming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week Band Leader Vincent Lopez announced that he had discovered Alaska's first swing song, The Ice-Worm Wiggle, or Akh-Tu-Wu-Ye-Keh, Cheechako ("Welcome Stranger"). The piece begins: See the sneaking, peeping ice worms wiggle. Its chorus...
Turn the Ice-Worm Wiggle loose! Glaciers gleam with misty dews. Thrilling ice-worms lurk for you Where Alaskan icebergs cruise. "Akh-tu-wu-ye-keh" to you! Let's mush on to a sourdough stew! . . . Mr. Lopez proposes, at the Claridge Hotel in Memphis this month, to popularize the Wiggle, a shuffling, hopping dance which ends with everyone pointing in the air, shouting...
...merits of Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath (verdict: an exciting novel with a weak last half). A verse group was entertained by Dorothy Parker with a speech called Sophisticated Verse, and the hell with it. A fiction group heard a dozen speeches, ranging from talks on how to worm social-conscious fiction into pulp magazines to Dashiell Hammett's warning that Hollywood techniques are poison to novelists...
...Well, you're welcome to the meat, but what worries me is the half-bottle of worm medicine...
...most treacherous of major diseases, trichinosis, is caused by eating underdone pork in which larvae of the hairlike worm Trichinella spiralis dwell. Trichinosis, with its severe intestinal pains and high temperature is rarely diagnosed, more often confused with typhoid or rheumatic fever. Although public health officials have long known that the U. S. has a higher incidence of trichinosis than any other country in the world,* even the efficient Public Health Service did not publish until last year the astounding fact that an estimated 16,000.000 persons in the U. S. are infected with trichinae...