Word: corn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drove out to Lincoln Park, an amusement park seven miles out of town. There 1,500 select guests, Democrats and Republicans, sipped Martinis and Manhattans out of paper cups in a big dance hall. Then they all girded on "Joe Martin Day" aprons and addressed themselves to the corn, clams, lobsters and beer of a traditional New England clambake. Joe, an old hand at this sort of thing, expertly did away with a heap of clams and half a lobster. Licking buttery fingers, the crowd sang...
Since it costs only $3 to $5 for the dry ice, plus the expense of the plane, the commercial possibilities are being explored by increasing numbers of flyers, chemical manufacturers. No one is more interested than the rain-starved farmers of the Corn Belt...
Down the steep cobbled streets of La Paz, coca-chewing Indians trotted under huge packs of bundled alpaca hides. In the market sun, Indian women in outlandish derby hats and bright-colored skirts haggled over little piles of shelled corn. It was winter, the good time in the Andes. The Indians (who comprise two-thirds of all Bolivians) were not even aware that political storms threatened the peace...
Vachel Lindsay was writing about his home town. For him, Springfield was more than the prosy, prosperous seat of Illinois' State Fair; he saw it as a cultural capital of the future, where art would some day vie with corn, hogs and cattle for attention. The hopeful poet, who died in 1931, might well have been pleased by this year's state fair. Last week, for the first time in Illinois history, fine art was among the exhibits...
JOHN DOS PASSOS is working on a novel about New Deal Washington politics, alternately putters about the Library of Congress researching a book on U.S. history. WILLIAM FAULKNER is raising corn and cotton on his Oxford, Miss. farm, writing for Hollywood "only when I run out of money," and working on a new book "off & on." In San Francisco, cocky WILLIAM SAROYAN has a novel in the works titled He Knew the Truth and Was Looking for Something Better,* but added: "This summer I plan to eat watermelons...