Word: corns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...news items that we are certain you will not be offended at this attempt of constructive criticism, and we are sure recognition of the Big Six Conference football teams, namely Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas State and Iowa State, will be appreciated by your many readers in the Corn Belt...
...Bliven, who was born in Iowa, has recently returned from a trip through the discontented farming sections and is expected to give authentic information on the conditions he found. A summary of his views, entitled "The Corn Belt Cracks Down," appeared in the New Republic on November...
...Nagel's pet aversious are sweetened corn bread and night clubs. His pet diversions are ping-pong and bicycling. Being very finicky about his table-tennis racquets, Nagel has imported an extra-large weapon from Germany. For the rest of his exercise, since he left his bicycle in the West, he finds it necessary to resort to ambulation. He usually walks from ten to fifteen miles a day. It was while walking around Central Park that he memorized the lines for the show in which he is now playing. "Being a timid young man," said Nagel. "I avoided the inside...
...story: Ernest Kuster Jr. of Neshanic, N. J., swaddled warmly for motoring, crept off while his father was putting his car in the garage, was found unharmed and happy next morning in the corn & cabbage patch. His posse chirp: "Peekaboo...
Bather In White Plains, N. Y. court J. Bruce Thompson, North Carolina cotton broker, demanded release from the insane asylum to which his brother had had him committed, was asked by the judge: "Isn't it true that at one time you tried to take a bath in corn whiskey?'' Replied J. Bruce Thompson: "I reckon I did try to do that in one of my more debauched moments...