Word: corns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite the fact that Jawn rhymes with corn and that Mr. William Gillette is not the greatest pen-pusher of the last age, "Too Much Johnson" is liable to start you on a laughing jag. Just get in the spirit of the thing. It's blessed with a villain who commands his plantation slaves by shooting a gun over their heads, a blushing damsel, a Frenchman with mustachios and a hero who extricates himself from spots tighter than his 1890 pants. The farce is flavored with one ridiculous situation after another, though it must be admitted that...
Beans and corn? I am at war with...
...spite of all this, the average U. S. diet has plenty of room for improvement, especially in some southern rural districts where the people still live mainly on hog and corn. In a survey made from 1934 to 1937, says Dr. Cummings, "out of every hundred families throughout the country, only 23 enjoyed diets which, from the nutritional standpoint, were good; 51 had diets which were fair; and 26 followed poor diets...
...Corn Is Green (by Emlyn Williams, produced by Herman Shumlin) joins a good sound sentimental play with just the actress for the job: Ethel Barrymore. Although its young Welsh author is best known in the U. S. for his murder drama Night Must Fall, this is no story of a psychopathic killer. It is a warm, wise semi-autobiography. It ran for nearly 700 performances in London, many during the blackout...
...each customer's dollar plunked down on grocery counters for potatoes, farmers get 47?, for apples 33?, for dairy products 46?, for corn flakes 20?, for soda crackers 8?. Of each dollar spent for food a quarter of a century ago, the farmer received 52 to 60?; in recent years his share seldom has exceeded...