Word: corns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...special interest in John Stockwell's library. . . . Home for Sunday dinner, the best part of which (for Mr. Baker) was ice cream. . . . Changed to old shirt and work trousers, left off hat, coat and waistcoat, rolled up workshirt sleeves and fell to cutting cornstalks in the garden. Carried the corn stalks in armfuls to his vacant side lot. (The stalks were later to be spread on flower beds for winter coverage). Forked up large clods in the back garden with a spading fork. No blisters resulted, his hands being used to such work. . . . Dressed to receive his lawyer-friend John...
...about her work but seldom subtle in its execution. Daring arrays of color, learned on the Corn wall coast, are typical. Influenced as are almost all artists by modern tendencies, her feet remain resolutely on the ground. She was the first foreign woman chosen to serve on the Carnegie International Jury (1922). She loves working out-of-doors. She is 50. Through all her work runs a hard streak of sanity. She seems what many artists would hesitate to seem - completely wholesome. The dancing, the grace, the figure of Pavlowa are among her chief idola tries. She has amazing versatility...
...resources of the Illinois Trust & Savings Bank were $69,000,000. The president retired when he was 66 years old. But four years later the bank merged with the Corn Exchange National Bank and the Illinois Merchants Trust Co. of Chicago. As the Illinois Merchants Trust Co., it needed its old president and he returned from what he wanted- a peaceful retirement with his wife and five children...
...corn shellers...
...corn shredders...