Word: corning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...1790s some Harvard students met on Saturday nights, held mock trials, wound up by slapping together a mess of corn meal and molasses called hasty pudding. Named after the mess, the Hasty Pudding Club went on holding mock trials for 50 years, then in 1844 launched its first play, has offered shows every year since except during the War, is the oldest college dramatic society in the U. S. Former members include Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Harvard '61, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge '71, Novelist Owen Wister '82, Banker John Pierpont Morgan '89, Radical John Reed...
...debt-ridden churches in his locality, a devout Methodist last week put forward a bit of oldtime religion. John O. Mullins, of Wesley, Iowa offered 100 bushels of seed corn free to farmers who would undertake to plant it on "God's acres," give the crop to God's uses. Worth $700, the seed corn would be distributed in 7-pound packages, each of which would plant one acre, produce 50 bushels-at 75? per bushel, a total of some...
...well pleased with results of the Lord's Acre Plan, has furnished information concerning it to churchmen in 40 States. Some 325 North Carolina churches, of eleven denominations, employ it. The largest, a Baptist church in Hendersonville, received $2,352 last year from 40-odd acres planted to corn, sweet potatoes, cabbages, etc. Rev. B. M. Strickland (Baptist) reported that since his people have taken up the Lord's Acre Plan he has performed more baptisms. Said he: "The work of the Lord's Acre makes good churches better churches, and good people better people. It also...
...childhood, Author Stuart remembers rabbit-hunting first, hard work next. At nine he hired out to a well-to-do farmer for 25? a day. From eleven to 15 he stopped school to cut corn and timber, work on a paving gang. In high school he licked hell out of a 200-lb. bully. At 18, after running away with a carnival, he worked in a Birmingham steel mill. At Lincoln Memorial, a mountain college in Tennessee, he almost killed a hazer the first day, again licked the school bully, was editor of the college literary magazine. At Vanderbilt University...
...bills, no returned quarters. James or William, the chauffeurs, know that today their passengers will walk the customary four or five blocks on Commonwealth Avenue or Tremont Street before the car is to cruise tactfully past and pick them up last the master's shoe begin to pinch his corn. But, under pain of dismissal, not until the world and the photographers have noted madam's attire...