Word: corncobs
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...Senator James E. Watson of Indiana. Three terms served The Senator, one with Governor Ed Jackson of Indiana, one with David C. Stephenson, onetime Klan Dragon, one with Bert Schultze, Indiana apple-grower. It was during his service with Mr. Schultze that The Senator, greedily seizing a corncob, got that same corncob stuck fast in his throat. The Senator gasped, choked, struggled, died...
Near Peebles, Ohio, one Perry Stansberry, weary after a raccoon hunt, slumped down beside his fireplace, filled his corncob pipe with loose tobacco from his pocket, lit, puffed, ruminated, fell back bruised and stunned by the explosion in his pipe-bowl of a .22-calibre rifle cartridge...
...spite of this overwhelming setback, one cannot but have faith in the smoke-wreathed banners of nicotine. Even now, if some chic, Parisian expert were to devise a feminine form of pipe to replace the grandmotherly corncob, one might safely wager that it would find universal favor with the gentler sex. And a charming smoking jacket should clinch the victory. If pioneer wives were willing to smoke corncobs an the chimney, surely their descend-ants can not be averse to a more civilized form of fumigation. Since the cigarette unsupported is achieving womanly progress, one can expect an artistic pipe...
...love story to thin it out to seven reels. The story is one of war; how feud war faded before the greater war which took the mountaineers to Germany, which they regarded as just beyond Asheville. The dominant figure is the old mountain mother who, between puffs at her corncob pipe, attains in her ignorance to some fundamental facts in life. Lucille La Verne, as in the play, makes this mother most of the entertainment...
...asked the Lord what to do when a white-trash gentleman built a house on her land and was going to make her tear down her cabin?who got a sign from the Lord, and burnt that house to white fine ashes, such as fell out of her corncob pipe when she prayed. There is Killdee who ploughed on Green Thursday?Ascension Day?the day Jesus went back to God, wherefore he expected to be scourged, and was, for that night his little girl, Baby Rose, was burnt to death in the cookfire. After that Killdee hated God. Vengeance...