Word: alfalfaism
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...Victorian mansions they had built slowly fell to pieces in a weird jumble of white gables and green cupolas. Max Rose, who came to South Africa from Lithuania in 1890, was one of the few ex-millionaires who stuck with his birds. He scrabbled hard to get enough lucerne (alfalfa) for his hungry flock. "Usually they ate and I didn't," Max recalls. "Sometimes we shared the lucerne between...
...appointed juries were on the conservative side, a fact which had led 28 advance-guard abstractionists to boycott the show (TIME, June 5). Possibly to rebut the allegation that they were just old fuddy-duddies, the jurors toppled over backward, chose whole roomfuls of alfalfa-dry, determinedly subjectless and mostly meritless efforts by the Academy of the Left. The leavening in their dull, predictable company was provided by a few comparatively young and little-known painters with a sense of self. Honolulu's Ben Norris translated mountains into a jagged, energetic shorthand that almost soared. Boston's Lawrence...
Oklahoma. Candidate William O. Coe felt there was something fishy about the way Johnston Murray, Alfalfa Bill's son, defeated him in the Democratic gubernatorial primary run-off by only 1,009 votes. So he demanded a recount. The recount gave him only 47 added votes - which cost him, since he had to pay expenses of $16,625, about $353.72 apiece...
With the largest primary vote ever given a candidate for Oklahoma's governorship, Johnston Murray, son of tobacco-chewing, brimstone-spitting old ex-Governor "Alfalfa Bill" Murray, topped a field of four other Democrats by a plurality of nearly 90,000, but he also faced a runoff. A night-school lawyer who has never before run for public office, 47-year-old Murray has been a printer, reporter, salesman, cattle dealer, cotton-gin operator, farmer, interpreter, tool dresser, truck dispatcher, oilfield roustabout, and plant manager. His campaign slogan: "Just Plain Folks...
...felt the pressure sooner than most because his six husky youngsters could eat their way through hi $240-a-month pay envelope quicker than a horde of grasshoppers could clean an alfalfa field. During the first month he had been forced to cut out the weekly ration of 28 quarts of milk, and cut down the weekly six dozen eggs. Later, Tom himself began eating breakfast and lunch regularly at Local 961's strike kitchen, then tried to go easy when he sat down with the family to their meatless dinners...