Word: alfalfaism
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Wayne Thorndyke, 17, of Lambert, Alfalfa County, Okla., who in nine years raised 128 cattle, 230 sheep, 20 pigs, 950 fowl, 1,478 acres of crops; earned...
...sultry Sunday morning in August 1928, a long-legged, eight-year-old youngster stood in his father's alfalfa patch near Santaquin, Utah. Suddenly an airplane cleared its way through the haze, circled the field a few times, landed a few feet from the boy. The pilot, for no apparent reason, called to the boy and asked him if he would like a lift. The boy said his father was down at the Mormon Church at the moment, and he wouldn't mind going if they were back before church was out. So they took off, flipped around...
William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray turned 72, foreseeing inflation, advised city folk to get rid of their paper money, move to the country, can fruit and vegetables, and bury them in the ground to "have something to eat when the trouble comes...
Willie took this job. In return the movie magnates were very good to Willie Bioff. They sent him and his wife to Europe and South America. Joe Schenck lent him $100,000 to buy an alfalfa farm, gave him $8,000 after a good evening at poker, gave him also a sun cabinet to sweat away his belly and a portrait inscribed "To my friend Willie." It was wonderful...
Quid-chompin' "Alfalfa Bill" Murray, 71, scraggly-mustached onetime Governor of Oklahoma, has written a book called The Finished Scholar, with a special chapter on etiquette. He explained: "If a few did not write and make the sacrifices . . . deny themselves for the future weal . . . society would wreck itself...