Word: corns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...check drawn against the Corn Exchange Bank of Manhattan...
...Corn + Whiskey = Democrats...
TIME, March 28, on p. 1, has made a grave error† as to the effect of rain on Presidential aspirations. The old adage, honored from the time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary, is: The more rain, the more corn; the more corn, the more whiskey; the more whiskey, the more Democrats...
Prognosticating the prospects for the coming year, in the agricultural world, Secretary Jardine said, "According to the expected crop of all grains, and other agricultural products, the year 1927 promises to be far above normal. Next year, eight per cent more land will be planted in corn than was planted this year, and there will be an increase of six per cent in acreage of land planted in wheat. Also, next year, there will be a decrease of over 6,000,000 acres in land planted with cotton. This will be of benefit to the entire country...
...developed with all possible force by treating it in natural minutiae instead of as a theme. To cut a girl's birth pains, a granny lays a whetted axe beside a plowshare under the bed. The moon's phases are watched and calculated for everything from corn-planting to paring finger nails. Good manners are the highest plantation criterion: it is bad manners to dislike soap and water, to have lice or warts, to horselaugh right in somebody's face, to have sooty feet. Never was a book more bubbling with conversation. Joy and sorrow, large matters...