Word: corn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Charles Linza McNary of Oregon and Rperesentative Gilbert N. Haugen of Iowa, co-authors of "the best advertised piece of literature in modern times," were obliged to stand, in person, while impersonators chanted "The Corn Belt Is Getting On Its Ear." A verse: Don't forget it's getting late...
Half a million people. Fat Tuesday. Negroes leading mule-drawn floats. Descendants of Acadians munching tac-tac (pop corn), beignets (doughnuts). Prankish youths in cowboy costumes smacking maidens on their fulsome, laughing lips. Public feasts. Electric bulbs. Bacchanalia Motorcycle policemen. Passenger agents. Twelfth Night Revelers. Heebie-Jeebies. Comus, Momus, Mystics. Proteus. More floats. Bourbon Street bounders. Swirling crowds tumbling over one another like waves as they surge through the streets, seeking favors from the nobility aboard the floats. Torches. Band music. "No Parking Along Parade Route." Revelry. Bootleggers. Streaming champagne bottles. Girls. Fat Tuesday. The mystery of night...
...President signed the Purnell bill appropriating $10,000,000 to battle the corn borer, famed farmers' pest (TIME, Jan. 17); asked for an additional $10,000,000. On the same day he signed another bill excluding from the U. S. mails: revolvers, pistols and all weapons capable of being concealed on one's person...
...Corn and swine are linked. Let farmers believe they will get a good price for corn, and promptly too much corn is planted. Down goes the price of corn. Meanwhile swine command good prices. So, next season, farmers turn their acres over to swine, feeding them on the almost worthless corn. Then, in the course of nature, they get too many swine and not enough corn. Down swine-price. Up corn-price. Next season farmers plant corn, and vicious is the circle. Furthermore, this corn-swine see-saw is apt to be exaggerated?an exaggeration of an exaggeration? in city...
Utterances: "Hunger, cold rags, hard work, contempt, suspicion, unjust reproach, are disagreeable; but debt is infinitely worse than them all. ... If you have but 50c and can get no more for a week, buy a peck of corn, parch it and live on it, rather than owe any man a dollar...