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...achievement of its militant makers the B. S. A. (Birmingham Small Arms) munitions trust (Lee-Enfield rifles) who also make popular priced cars called simply ''B. S. A.'s." Smartest of medium-priced British sports cars today is the "M. G.," a rip-roaring little red bug made by sedate Morris Garages...
...Valcour. Inspector Ellery & staff turn the theatre upside down, invade the musicians' room, wardrobe room, property room, and even, amid terrified squeals, the backstage quarters of the naked ladies of the ensemble. They question everyone: unholy Siebenkase (Bela Lugosi of Dracula); Madame Tanqueray, the wren-like wardrobe mistress; bug-eyed Billy Slade, impersonated by Ben Lackland. As usual, Mr. Lackland is playing the part of a rich young man with a Lot to Explain. All the giggling girls, comics and doormen have been interviewed when Inspector Ellery comes at last to the temperamental diva, Sonya Sonya. The diva turns...
Lips. The Hahn lady's lips are red with a dye from the "Kermes berry." Kermes is not a berry at all but a bug - a reddish, wingless female insect, relative to the cochineal of Mexico, that lays its eggs on oak leaves throughout southern Europe. The insects are killed in a vapor of hot vinegar, dried, and ground for pigment. It takes 10 to 12 lb. of kermes to produce as red a color as one pound of cochineal. The Louvre lady's lips are of cochineal, unknown in Europe before Cortes brought it back...
...extracted potent drugs (adrenalin, cholesterol, ergosterol, and two digitalis-like substances) which modern scientific medicine considers indispensable. Apparently toads do not use these potent drugs in their own economies. When Dr. Chen removed the glands from several toads, they seemed as well as ever, pursued their proper business of bug hunting. Prospective toad farmers should note that a toad produces only one crop of drugs. The extirpated glands do not grow back...
SIrs: A new contributor to your Letters column, I address this not to the always courteous editors, but to the embittered and insulting Mr. Leonard J. (for Justice?) Bernheim of Chicago. He has apparently been stung by the Alimony Bug or he would not howl so loudly...