Word: corns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...masses of the American people have not got the purchasing power to eat more and better food. Cotton. "Farm income in the United States has risen since 1932 a total of nearly three billions. That is because wheat is selling at better than 90 cents instead of 32 cents; corn at 50 cents instead of 12 cents; cotton at 12 cents instead of 4½ cents, and other crops in proportion...
...group was lounging on the veranda he shouted: ''How are the cripples this morning?" and drove on roaring at his own joke. Also he took the first good afternoon to drive out to his 2,500-acre farm where he learned from Manager Otis Moore that the corn crop had been 1,300 bu., the best ever, inspected a number of new sheds built of lumber grown on the place and sawed at his own mill...
...pinochle and bridge parties for prizes. Currently another game, beano (or bingo, or keno), has been popular at Church bazaars and sociables. In this, any number of players purchase boards bearing 15 squares differently numbered. As numbers are drawn from a box and called out, players place beans or corn on the corresponding numbers on their boards. A player wins when he fills five squares in a straight line, cries "Beano!" (or "Bingo!" or "Keno...
...father was faltering. He couldn't select the rest of the meal. Every moment that he hesitated the son instinctively knew that he was losing ground, but what to do about it? Finally the elder struck out in desperation, "I haven't had any corn on the cob for some time. How would that go with clams...
...same reason, little girl, that we kill of pigs, plow corn under, and then haven't food to feed the needy. It's logic a la brain trust...