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When William Hearst came to Manhattan where, with money borrowed from his mother,* he acquired another jaundiced journal. He was to cure it of financial jaundice and infect it with another ocherous bug. It was the yellow wrappings of the "funnies" in this newspaper from which grew the household epithet "yellow journalism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: President's Bible | 8/15/1927 | See Source »

...golf bug will live in his knickers...

Author: By R. T. S., | Title: THE CRIME | 4/16/1927 | See Source »

Your question program was fine. Give us another. My better half is not a radio bug, but you caught her this time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Offered to Wager | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

Inspectors rushed to Kankakee County to search for the devastating bug; the corn borer committee of the Illinois Agriculture Association called a meeting to plan precautionary measures; the U. S. House of Representatives prepared to act on the Purnell corn borer eradication bill, asking for an appropiation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: One Bug | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

...Bug Houses. By the last will and testament of the late Seth Buddhimal, wealthy and pious banker of Sihora, Central India, there has been left, it was announced last week, $100,000 to build and endow in perpetuity three rest houses into which insects may withdraw from the world. Poor travelers will be allowed to sleep overnight in these bug rest houses, will even be paid a small sum for doing so, as long as they lie still and kill no bugs. Should a sleeper kill a bug, even by accidentally rolling over, he will be ejected from the bug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News Notes, Nov. 29, 1926 | 11/29/1926 | See Source »

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