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Word: corning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...integral part of the story, Lionel Barrymore plays a sniveling old Confederate veteran, full of pride, a musty love affair and corn whiskey. Best shot: Barrymore, under the delusion that he is again commanding troops in the field, shouldering his cane, marching off down the great hall to shoot himself dead in the back yard. Silliest shot: a ball at Connelly Hall immediately after the First Battle of Bull Run attended by President Davis and Generals Lee, Jackson and Beauregard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 19, 1934 | 2/19/1934 | See Source »

Nicholas Stephanos Vasilakos echoes with more than sentiment to some persons. It echoes with romance to me and many others who have bought the wares of this peanut and pop corn vendor. Across "the Avenue" "David Belasco's" theatre rests. Many a romantic couple have before or after the show bought of the man on Pennsylvania & East Executive Avenues. More romantic, however, have been the purchases of this man in the form of peanuts to be fed to squirrels and pigeons across the way, as cater-cornered to N. S. V.'s stand is a small park where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 12, 1934 | 2/12/1934 | See Source »

What Did Not Happen, and what President Roosevelt wanted most of all, was a thundering upward surge in commodity prices. Wheat moved up a paltry 1? per bushel to 92?, cotton added less thian ½? a pound. But corn, oats, rye, barley remained practically unchanged. Commodity tables duly recorded the weekly range of gold per ounce: low-$34.45; high-$35; last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: What Did Not Happen | 2/12/1934 | See Source »

...course, it works with respect to cotton, the same quota policy and tax penalty could be operated with respect to wheat or corn or any other farm crop. It may involve control of every plowed field and the 6,000,000 farmers of the country...

Author: By David Lawrence, | Title: Today in Washington | 1/29/1934 | See Source »

...feature of the corn hog program that I have not seen mentioned in any of the papers will be the cutting down of farm help needed. Here in southwestern Iowa there are many farmer-and-sons units and by signing up they will be able to dispense with one hired man. I am opposed to buying up the deserted land by the government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 8, 1934 | 1/8/1934 | See Source »

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