Word: weeding
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...when the mandibles strike on each side of the wound, the ant's body is snipped off. The death grip of the head holds the wound together. Often as many as six ants are used on large wounds. Thus drawn together the wound is smeared with a weed-pulp paste, bandaged with dried banana leaves...
There were a million flowers on display, and not a bug or a worm or a weed. Those who went early enough saw a Miss Doris Humphreys perform an interpretive dance (to violin accompaniment) on $1,000 worth of turf, heard a Miss Frances Johnson recite an Ode to Spring, applauded while Mr. Mei Lan-fang. China's greatest actor (TIME, Feb. 24). accepted a tulip bulb named in his honor...
...Escholier puts in this edition a special bid for the American trade when he plays up to its full value the Hugo-Lincoln story. This attempt in no way succeeds in over-balancing the florid enthusiasm which runs through the pages like a great exotic weed, and is very annoying to those who would wade through the tropical growth of bubbling Gallic lack of restraint. In contrast to the precision of other French prose, this translated outburst of M. Escholier indicates that, like the little girl who is very good, French writing when it is bad, is horrid...
...American Museum of Natural History, Mrs. Delia J. Akeley, big game huntress whose late husband chose King Albert's site in 1920; Stanley Field, President of Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History; Dr. Robert M. Yerkes, Yale's ape expert; Dr. Lewis H. Weed of Johns Hopkins; James Gustavus Whiteley, Belgian Consul at Baltimore. He who would hunt apes or elephants on King Albert's 500,000 acres must have a scientific object in view...