Word: canners
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...While Knitter John Cann was distinguishing himself in Boston last week, Canner David Hippie was likewise distinguishing himself in Chicago. A 45-year-old bachelor who runs a fruit farm near Elgin, Ill., Canner Hippie, competing with 100 women in the Cook County Fair, got first prize for a jar of his blackberry...
...Tasting. The grading of canned peas has long been a matter of human taste. Dr. Zoltan Imre Kertesz of the New York State division of food chemistry reported that the proportion of peas soluble in alcohol was a much better index of grade, that many a canner was ready to replace human tasters with alcoholic robots...
...also considered, the club's only by-law being that if a member is called upon to entertain and either refuses or fails to perform, he is automatically thrown out. Some Horrible Hemingways: George Newell Armsbyt vice president of Bancamerica-Blair Corp., and his brother James, San Francisco canner; Reginald Vaughan, San Francisco attorney; James John Walker, Mayor of New York; Cinemactors Jack Holt and Ernest Torrence; Con Conrad, song writer, who supplied the words for the Hemingway anthem : We are the Hemingways The Horrible Hemingways We'd rob the blind man of his cup Or steal...