Word: crotone
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...Dusk. That was the background of the meeting of Byrnes, Molotov, Bevin and France's Couve de Murville amid the yellow chairs and croton plants in the apartment lent to the Ministers by the Waldorf's fastidious board chairman, Lucius M. Boomer...
...dies at 23°. It is also very susceptible, when it can be reached, to poison. In Manhattan the most common varieties of roach are the American (an inch and a half long) and the German (half as large) ; the German is locally known as the "Croton bug" because it first invaded the city in large numbers when holes were cut in walls for water pipes, at the time the Croton Dam was built for a civic water supply. In spite of its appetite, the cock roach's chief danger to man is not destructiveness but food contamination...
GEORGE BIDDLE Croton-on-Hudson...
Flood Greater Than Any Since Noah's Day May at Any Time Sweep Down the Croton Valley...
...highly-colored, savagely-drawn pictures have drawn praises and commissions from many a bourgeois. (Art-loving capitalists buy his canvases like hot cakes at $750 up.) Today Leftist Gropper (once an errand boy in a clothing store) lives in a nine-room stone house ("bourgeois as hell") in Croton-on-Hudson, drives a big Chrysler...