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...Bug. In Cincinnati's Zoological Gardens, Contralto Bernice Mershon opened her mouth to emit Alan-a-Dale's part in an outdoor performance of Robin Hood. Past her gleaming teeth, into the warm, dark cavity of her throat, flew a bug. Contralto Mershon shuddered, swallowed, sang on. When she could get offstage she chewed a mint, gulped some medicine, gasped: ". . . the biggest sacrifice I ever made...
...Senator Tom Connally of Texas. Obviously befuddled by the Prohibition question, Junior Heflin gabbled convivially with ship newsgatherers until Senator Connally took him to his cabin and locked him in. Upon the pier Junior Heflin announced: "I want to see Al Smith. My father's got a bug. He's all wrong about Al Smith. . . . My old man will give me hell, but I can't be sticking by him all the time. . . . Papa is a two-gun man. . . ." Escaping Senator Connally's sober supervision, Junior set forth to inspect some of New York...
...short howls of mournful hopelessness. A long rattling crescendo of protesting crashes, And a great voice shrieking like a lunatic with the Christ bug, And one eager eye squinting into the distance, searching out the red, the yellow, the cool green signal lights. The song of the freight is the moan and the broken cry of a woman dying in a train wreck, The clear sharp challenge hurled at the moon by a lonely defiant farm-dog, A nocturne in an unknown key torn by the wind from the throat of a steam whistle in a nightmare, . . . An all-metal...
...useful he is! He digs for the grub of the June bug that eats the roots of the grass. That is why he tears up the lawn. A skunk in the front yard and a crow on the ridgepole is grass insurance...
...famed Hindu doctrine that thou shalt not kill even a bug-much less a human-was sensationally reinterpreted last week, by the potent ascetic, sage and saint, Mahatma Gandhi...