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...person, but his face is pretty convincingly weathered. In the pictures he holds a gee gaw whimmy-diddle or a flipper-dinger, and in inset photos he shows how to use them. The rest of the toys are things like bull roarer, idiot sticks, ball tossers, and plain old cornshuck dolls. Each one of them is "A genuine" item or "a rare authentic artifact." Despite extensive instructions on the back, it's very hard to say just what these toys...

Author: By Phil Patton, | Title: Pennies for the Old Guy | 5/17/1974 | See Source »

...planned to go to New York to see some fashion models who had voted him No. I Leap Year Bachelor, and thus get his picture in the papers. As a self-avowed presidential candidate, he also hoped to rebroadcast a campaign promise-that he would take his "ole cornshuck mop and his ole suds bucket" and sweep up the Democratic Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALABAMA: A Man Was the Cause of It All | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

...congratulate you; it was a well-chosen word, aptly used. For my back bristles, a rubbing with ashes on a cornshuck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 9, 1946 | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

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