Word: cornbread
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lomax returned to lead the audience in Almost Done, a song he collected years ago from penitentiaries, when the wardens permitted him to visit with the prisoners and swap songs and stories. Terry and McGee rocked through I Don't Want No Cornbread and Molasses, straight out of a southern jail, and marched out with When the Saints Go Marching...
...biggest jump came with peace, when the Swansons noted both the boom in home freezers and the shortage of domestic servants, brought out beef, chicken and turkey pies, new roast beef and fried chicken dinners, all ready for the oven. Their first frozen TV Dinner (sliced turkey on cornbread, buttered peas, sweet potatoes, gravy) now sells at the rate of 13 million a year. Total production: well over 10 million packages a month, from the production lines of plants at Omaha, Modesto, and Salisbury...
...draw upon the wisdom, the heart and soul, of those who went before us"), which the sophisticated Cooper could chuckle over later, still recognizing and reverently respecting their basic truth. Afterwards, Cooper drifted among the patches of family groups, diligently shaking hands. He ate a huge helping-fried chicken, cornbread sticks, deviled eggs, stringbeans and bacon, two kinds of cake, watermelon. Then he flew off again, for a brief look-in at a tobaccomen's convention in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., and a $100-a-plate campaign fund-raising dinner in Louisville. This week, after four days of duty...