Word: adams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After reading your article, one gets a big picture of musician Joseph Adam, trembling, but courageous, facing an audience of long-bearded, rawboned (your own word), two-gunned, tobacco-spittin' individuals, booted and spurred and clad in chaps and ten-gallon hats, smelling unpleasantly of cattle. They have the noose ready and the tree all picked out in case Director Adam fails to please...
...Adam, dauntless, surprises them ; they swallow their tobacco, are taught to like it, although still in stupendous puzzlement. Pardon...
Rumor has it and it not Rumor, then Human Nature that Adam's first words of wisdom were "Shall we join the ladies." Indeed and for a deeting weekend, the ladies take advantage of the opportunity to join Adam, and, to be more specific, to join his progeny, the sons of John Harvard...
...Marshall, industrious son of Adam, grew more bushels of corn to an acre than any other man, was hailed corn monarch of the world.* Last week he was summoned from his farm near Ada, Ohio, to tell President Coolidge how he makes corn grow. Farmer Marshall's formula: good seed, fertilizer heavily applied, and a careful rate of planting...
...Brothers Robert and James Adam, famed 18th Century British furniture makers...