Word: corning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your article concerning the Joslyn Art Museum at Omaha you describe its donor, Mrs. Sarah Selleck Joslyn, as eccentric and sometimes known as the "Corn Belt's" Hetty Green (TIME, Jan. 11). Several years ago Mrs. Joslyn was voted Omaha's most useful citizen by the American Legion, and the only true comparison to Hetty Green, is her possession of wealth. She should not be described as eccentric, unless this word is used to describe philanthropy and unselfishness -two attributes Mrs. Joslyn possesses and Hetty Green lacked. You have also sacrificed accuracy for sensation alism in describing...
...offer as a panacea an exodus into the corn fields and rolling prairie land is obviously Utopian and quite impossible under the conditions of the present civilization. But it is not too much to expect, and it is almost an essential to continued existence, that something of those principles of sincerity, steadfastness, and of courage, which are found in the country may be transplanted in the city. There is something wrong with a civilization which forces twenty men in a single October afternoon to jump out of tall buildings because a stock fell ten points. It is a lack...
...occurs just when things are looking brightest for Mammy's big family. There is plenty of corn laid by for the mules and blackamoors, fattening hogs grunt in their pen, 25^ cotton has provided a fine pair of blue mules, clothes for everybody and $40 for Christmas. A high pile of tinder-dry stovewood is stacked near the cabin door...
...Bath Club" with Contralto Barbara Maurel, Frank Ventrees' Orchestra and Society Reporter Margaret Santry sponsored by Corn Products Refining Co. (Linit). Every night except Saturday and Sunday...
...Wheat & corn were steady, bewildered traders by not following down with stocks & bonds...