Word: swatted
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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...fight against the fly has not let up. The Iowa State Department of Health is urging citizens to "swat the fly early and kill THREE MILLION AT A BLOW." In New Haven Health Officer John Levi Rice says: "The only place where a fly has any value is on the end of a fish line...
Died. Bozeman Bulger, 54, sports writer (baseball), playwright, raconteur; of heart disease; in Lynbrook, Long Island. Good friend to all baseballers, he wrote for the old New York World from 1905 until it was sold last year. Famed for his stories of the fabulous batsman, "Swat Milligan of the Poison Oak team," Writer Bulger had since been with Saturday Evening Post. During the War he led troops in the Argonne, became chief press representative on General Pershing's staff. At a dance in Coblenz after the Armistice, gay Writer Bulger amazed British officers by cutting in on Edward...