Word: corncob
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Puffing on a corncob pipe, Powell complained: "I told them the House wasn't going to move any sort of legislation like this. It's too late, and they're tired. I told this to the Speaker. I told it to everybody...
...curtain has just fallen on William Faulkner's Requiem for a Nun (Royal Court). Let us now imagine that there steps from the wings the Stage Manager of Thornton Wilder's Our Town. Pulling on a corncob pipe, he speaks...
...documents, his 123 U.S. and foreign decorations, battle trophies and gifts from the great, and the 126 battle flags that have unfurled over his soldier's career. On the collection's lighter side: the general's special gold-braided cap, his old sunglasses and his favorite corncob pipe...
When Rock Island railroadmen complained about their corncob-filled caboose mattresses half a century ago, they unknowingly baptized a working practice that is as old as man's labor and as fresh as this week's news. Chided the trainmaster: "What do you want-featherbeds?" Since then, featherbedding-the purposeful slowing down or spreading out of work to make jobs-has become one of the most emotion-packed points of dispute between...
...rough exterior of Hemingway, he's just a great big bleeding heart. Sinclair Lewis was a crypto-sentimentalist and a slovenly writer who managed a slight falsification of life in order to move the reader. Faulkner falsified life for dramatic effect. It's sentimentality disguised by the corncob. I can't read ten pages of Steinbeck without throwing up. I couldn't read the proletarian crap that came out in the '30s; again you had sentimentalism-the poor oppressed workers...