Word: bran
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sided, the nine poets who founded the magazine . . . elect an acting editor quarterly and give him power of life and death over submitted poems. . . . We are all somewhat tired of Whitmanesque mock heroics and bangwhanging; tired of stereotyped rhymes and consolations; tired of seven-day reputations stuffed with bran and hung with cowbells...
...prevent any man from cutting down to two meals a day--if he wants to. All science, economics, and efficiency suggest it. But one is tempted to respect the old story of the economical farmer and his cow. Finding by accident that a little sawdust mixed in her daily bran did no harm, he gradually increased the proportion of sawdust. Everything worked like a charm, --but the cow died...