Word: bees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...silk sash brushed against the uniforms of battle-soiled pressmen. His white-silk skullcap shone among battered steel helmets. Benignly he overlooked the breach of Vatican neutrality implicit in the side arms carried by a few army men. He smiled when he saw U.P.'s hefty Eleanor ("Pee Bee") Packard bulging in army slacks. "I haven't anything else to wear," said Correspondent Packard...
...Skeltons, Jack Bennys and Bob Hopes (which he disliked), George Ade was an almost forgotten name. Columnist Leonard Lyons reported that Humorist Bob Benchley had to repair to the Stork Club to forget, after hearing a CBS announcer tell about the death of "the Indiana writer, George A-bee...
...only real legend of our time" is just a character in a detective story. They insist that since his last public appearance (1927) in The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, Holmes has simply retired from his smoke-filled rooms at London's 2216 Baker Street to a bee farm in Sussex. At last week's dinner no whiff of Holmesian ritual was omitted. Holmesian pundits floored one another with complicated I.Q. tests based on the Master's "Sacred Writings," filled the air with erudite Sherlockeries. From a dais, the Rev. Leslie Marshall of Paterson, NJ. intoned...
...cane sugar the bee gets from nectar is metabolized into honey sugars (glucose, levulose, dextrose). Honey normally has no vitamin C, and not much of any other vitamin...
Most apiarists have supposed that bees thrive only on nectar, but a Soviet bee student, E. Arefyeff of the Maikop Agricultural Research Station, thought of trying them on other foods. He fed them nectar, laced with essences of fruits, fruit-tree leaves, aromatic grasses like mint. The honeyed results were pleasing. Fruit-fed bees produced honey rich in vitamin C; mint-fed bees gave honey that had pleas ant fragrance as well as taste...