Word: corn
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...police arrested for drunkenness one Reptile Red DeHorn Jersey Bull. In Danbury, Conn., arrested for the same reason was a man who was trying to hide a watermelon under his shirt but having some difficulty, because he was already loaded with a jar of cheese spread, several ears of corn, two jars of skin lotion, some parts for an automobile brake, a can of shoe polish, a dill pickle, and a rearview mirror...
...asked him what was cooking. "Roast beef, baked ham, fried chicken and T-bone steak," he replied. I ordered the steak . . . and he shuffled out. Presently he set before me tomato juice and avocado salad. This was followed by the steak with French-fried potatoes, Golden Bantam corn, a dish of green field peas, ice tea and hot biscuits with country butter. For dessert there was a generous piece of banana cream pie with real whipped cream...
Politics in the Bluegrass State is usually as hot as a searing gulp of straight Kentucky corn, as close-fought as a banner-year Derby. This year's gubernatorial elections are no exception. At the post in the Democratic primary this week...
Stolid Dr. Charles E. Friley, president of Iowa State College, at first tried to protect his corn-belt Don Quixote from the dairymen's fury, mumbled about academic freedom. But then he himself was summoned to a meeting of 100 angry Iowa milk producers. Orated Francis Johnson, president of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation : "The farmers are alarmed over this tendency to make Iowa State College a tax-supported Harvard. They're not ashamed of the 'cow college' label...
...castigate farmers who hoard their grain for higher prices, the Kansas City Grain Market Review last week turned to the Bible, dug up a dire admonition: "He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him; but blessings shall be upon the head of him that selleth it." (Proverbs...