Word: insectes
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Regarding your July 26 issue: Would you kindly have that Indian on p. 12 lower his sights a bit, down about to "The Insect World" in your Miscellany column...
...Insect World. In Cincinnati, George Frank, a gypsy, was charged with trying to evade the draft by buying a wife and three children for $500. In Ithaca, N.Y., a local draft board sympathetically postponed the induction of a young man who had swallowed a hornet...
Writes Professor Lloyd: "The body may be more or less compressed between the lobes. The glands [with which the surface of the leaf lobes are covered] then secrete a digestive fluid and in a few days the insect body disintegrates and the products are absorbed. In the course of ten days the lobes open again, and are ready to catch other prey. This may be repeated two or three times before the leaf reaches its complete maturity, when it dies...
Excerpts from Communiqué No. 1 of the Agriculture Department, reporting on "major battles against insect allies of the Axis...
...battle you can see exactly nothing. But when you leave the banks of the river the ground war suddenly becomes very grim drama. Down muddy, green-walled tracks stagger wounded men, the blood still running from beneath grimy bandages, their green uniforms stained grey with mud, their faces lined, insect-bitten, haggard, sometimes fever-yellowed. Men with torn limbs lie, eyes closed, on crude log stretchers, borne on the muscled shoulders of kindly, perpetually plodding, splayfooted natives. A native walks beside each man, holding a huge green banana leaf to keep the burning sun from the head of the soldier...