Word: alfalfaism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...month separate maintenance to his estranged wife who still lives in his house. Said he: "So far as I'm concerned, it's a life sentence. I'll never pay it, for I'm broke." Two days later Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray granted him full pardon, compared his case with that of Victor Hugo's Jean Valjean, his judge with infamous Judge Jeffreys of 17th Century England...
...near Leesburg, had just returned from Hyde Park. Through the National Committee he declared: "On my visit I found a herd of Guernsey cattle, dairy and horse barns, poultry houses, a silo filled with corn ensilage, farm horses, hogs and over 600 laying hens. The fields were in corn, alfalfa and pasture. There's no pseudo silo and sunken garden. These are on an adjacent place owned by the family of the late J. R. Roosevelt, a kinsman...
Said Oklahoma's Governor William H. ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray, refusing an invitation to a football game: "Modern education has too many football, basketball and highball policies...
California's climate long since ceased to be news. No one knows that better than Arthur Brisbane, able newsman. But on his frequent visits to Publisher Hearst's ranch at San Simeon, and his own alfalfa farm on the Mojave Desert, he cannot resist rhapsodizing in his "Today" colyum over California sunshine, sky, flowers, ocean, mountains...
...likely to be much worried but Rosickv's wife made him sit in the kitchen and take life easy while his sons did the plowing. Rosicky's long habit of friendliness finally got the better of him. He thought the thistles ought to be cleared out of the alfalfa field on his son Rudolph's farm. "He put the horses to the buggy rake and set about raking up those thistles. He behaved with guilty caution. . . ." Two days later. Neighbor Rosicky was dead. He was buried in a little square of long grass that seemed right...