Word: corn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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radio listener lends his ear to a loudmouthed, platitudinous, corn-cackling character who calls himself Senator Claghorn. The "Senator" is a broad burlesque of the worst in Southern statesmen. On the air for less than three months, he is already being mimicked by children at school, businessmen at luncheon clubs, drunks at bars. No one does the routine quite as well as the Senator himself: Fred Allen's announcer, Kenny Delmar...
...histological study of the meri-stems of buds and of tropical ferns, gym-nosperms and woody angiosperms"; "A comparative investigation of the neuropsychological determinants of the phenomena of dissociation"; "A spectroscopic study and analysis of gases of the volcano Mauna Loa." Says Miller (who was refused a Guggenheim): "A corn-fed hog enjoys a better life [in the U.S.] than a creative writer, painter or musician. To be a rabbit is better still...
Down Once. Black George, founder of the line, left his swineherd's hut to become the scourge of Serbia's Turkish masters. He was a choleric, heroic breeder of pigs and rebellion. He loved corn pone, plum brandy and killing (with his own hands he slew 125 men who provoked his anger; he stabbed his stepfather, hanged his brother...
...Corn, but No Beer. The first strip McManus did for Hearst was a slapstick called The Newlyweds. Last year old Mr. Hearst got to remembering it-even though he couldn't remember its name-and ordered the artist to resume "that strip with the baby." So, since January, the Sunday Jiggs strip has had Snookums and the Newlyweds at its top. Hearst once told McManus that "rushing the growler" was out, since subscribers in dry states might be offended to see the characters lugging cans of beer...
During the war, U.S. commodity exchanges had little to do. Unlike World War I, when skyrocketing wheat and corn prices made millionaires in the pit from morn till midafternoon, the U.S. government controlled the big buying. It set ceilings on all important commodities except rye, made the once hectic exchanges as quiet as country stores. But traders squirmed under this cosy arrangement...