Word: cornstalks
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...peasant lying bleeding near the roadbed. He had fallen from a refugee train some hours before. The train wheels had cut his foot off. He was all alone, crying, and his flesh was mangled on the rail. The bones of his foot were sticking out like a thin white cornstalk. I broke open my medicine kit and gave Kim some sulfanilamide and we raced on to tell someone to send water and a doctor. But there was no doctor within a day's journey...
Henry Wallace stood last week on the cornstalk-decorated stage of the Coliseum in Des Moines to undergo what was a political ordeal for a shy man-to accept the Democratic nomination for Vice President. His unruly hair combed back for a change, his wide features expanding in a boyish grin, he beamed on the crowd in a way that made it unmistakable-it was a great occasion for him. The crowd of 7,000 to 8,000, almost filling the Coliseum, roared back, waved banners WELCOME HOME, HANK and WHO WANTS WINDY WENDELL WILLKIE...
...still the same size: height not quite four feet, weight 52 pounds. Then the Associated Catholic Charities sent the shy little dwarf to New Orleans Charity Hospital, where for two years she took large dally doses of the growth-stimulating hormones, thyroid and pituitary extract. Quick as a cornstalk Eula shot up. Last week she reached 59 inches, 92 pounds. Doctors thought they could boost her up another few inches but healthy Eula was content. Said she proudly, if incorrectly: "I'm taller than Helen Hayes." (Miss Hayes's height: five feet...
...When New York and Chicago bankers took over the liquidation of the concern, Mr. Peek was asked to resign. He did so but later sued for future salary under his contract and recovered several hundred thousand dollars. General Johnson stayed behind, while Peek, now independently wealthy, went into a cornstalk processing concern which left him more time for his life hobby, farm relief...
...York State aid being apportioned on the basis of daily instruction and attendance. New York City provides classes for the blind, deaf, crippled, tuberculous, cardiac, mentally slow. There are classes in Americanization, in vocations, by day and by night. East Side moppets who have never before seen a cornstalk may help till an East Side school-garden. From 1920 to 1930 New York opened new schools at the average rate of one every 13 days (there are now 1,000). A new course for all schoolboys as well as girls is one in sewing which Superintendent O'Shea introduced...