Word: corn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John Wesley Langley, beloved soak, bleary-eyed disciple of Sir John Falstaff,† was ten times elected Congressman from Kentucky by bone-dry, Fundamentalist, Republican mountaineers. His tongue knew well the golden mellowness of old Kentucky "corn," his hand had felt the frost of tall mint juleps, but he remained faithful, legislatively, to the arid principles of his constituents. He had been arrested for intoxication in both Pikeville, Ky., and Washington, D. C., but Congressmen continued to admire his genial philosophy, his legal knowledge. He is now serving a two-year term in the Atlanta penitentiary for conspiracy to violate...
...Corn Exchange Bank-60 branches hidden around the city where the gunmen cannot find them -enterprising enough to use time clocks but conservative enough in salaries...
...Corn. Estimated to be 2,660,680,000 bu.; was 2,900,581,000 bu. last year; sold currently at 80c to 90c a bushel. The U. S. leads the world in production. Next is Argentina which produces one-tenth as much. Iowa leads the U. S. The 1926 crop is excellent in Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska. Rain is needed in Kentucky, Missouri, Kansas. In Georgia the crop has ripened late. Cold weather has injured the Wisconsin stand...
William M. Jardine, Secretary of Agriculture, listened to mutterings from the Corn Belt, which did not glorify the Administration's farm relief attitude; spoke before the American Institute of Co-operation in St. Paul...
...reflects the changing of gypsy ways from mooching along in bright-painted horse-vans to flitting over the country in shiny automobiles. Whether or not some of the language is highflown-and whether or not gypsies ever caught chickens by dragging past a farmyard a fishhook baited with corn-the sharp flavor of true folklore is strong upon such sayings as these...