Word: cockroaches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fifteen Cents Sirs: You will find 15? in stamps attached to this note. Please mail a copy of TIME containing The Voter's Dream to the Rev. Dr. John Cockroach Straton. Your cartoon will enable him to see himself as every intelligent person has seen him for years. On second thought, I am attaching another 15? for the benefit of Wm. E. Vare, the "Senator-suspect." REYNOLDS PHIPPS Philadelphia...
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...David Burliul, in which he visualized the vibrations of modern city life in what he defined as "radio style." Eitaro Ishigaki, a Japanese, drew a picture of a phantom on the point of being crushed by a thousand falling elevated trains and run over by a horde of cockroach taxicabs. It was a "satire on the U. S. flapper." Noboru Foujioka painted some dejected cretins playing at cards, called it "American Spirit." And another member of the Jap-Manhattan school showed "evolution" as a tree with the body of an ape, burrowing worms for roots, a fruit of masks against...
...check, however, by competition, lack of food, poisons, etc. At a moderate estimate, 30 trillions of bacteria are excreted from one human body each day. Yet these 30 trillions weigh, on the average, only two ounces. The biggest known microbe is the bacillus bütschlii (found in the cockroach), which may be 50 microns (one 500th of an inch) in length and about one-tenth as wide. Among the smallest is the bacillus influenzae (0.8x0.3 microns), although the filterable viruses are believed to consist of ultramicroscopic organisms very much smaller. The most active bacteria move about...
...Army officer questions his play. Orango smiles. The officer cries "cheat," and Orango .shoots Mm dead across the table. Orango dashes out, jumps on a horse, and rides into the night-covered mountains-no longer Orango, but Francisco Villa, bandit, known to his friends as La Cucaracha, "the cockroach...