Word: corn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cracks between the walls so big that you could a-throwed a cat betwix them without tetching a hair." Emmy's parents were hillbilly sharecroppers. She was christened Joy May Creasy. Says she: "I started strippin' tobakker when I was eight, I reckon. Summers I chopped out corn and wormed and suckered tobakker. I reckon I allus wuz a show-off." Joy May's schooling lasted two weeks...
...stopped the show. Loudest thunder was for Composer Berlin, who followed a husky rendering of Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning with one husky chorus of White Christmas. When the audience still would not let him go, he gave them a new bit of alien corn called My British Buddy, which at week's end most of London was whistling...
...School crowd, which included Jimmy and Rich MacUartland, Bud Freeman, Floyd O'Brien, Frank Teschemacher, and allied members such as Dave Hough, Jess Stacy, Gene Krupa, Joe Sullivan, Muggsy Spanier, and Mezz Mezzrow. For instance, Tesch married a gal who used to pour nothing but straight gin on her corn flakes...
Another new insecticide, phenothiazine, has been found extraordinarily effective against tent caterpillars, cattle ticks, Mexican bean beetles, corn borers, many another pest...
...farmers invented rye and bourbon whiskey because by the time Midwesterners could get their corn to the Eastern markets the horses that carried it would have had to eat it all up. A Kentucky ironmaster named William Kelly discovered the blast furnace by accident when he let a blast of air pass through his molten iron; even his young wife was so skeptical of the process (he correctly insisted that cold air raises the temperature of molten metal) that she had his head examined...