Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more years of life and a succession of political intrigues which were as consistently disastrous as his amatory adventures were successful. Blennerhassett went back to his island in the Ohio. Bankrupt and heartbroken at his mansion's ruin, Blennerhassett moved farther south, settling on 1,000 acres of cotton land at St. Catherine's, Miss. Meantime, Blennerhassett Island had been rented to a friend, who subsequently was dispossessed. Creditors took over the estate, leased it to a farmer who stowed part of his hemp crop in one of the wings of the house. One frosty evening a boatload...
...Subsequently, someone knocked over a candle. Up went the hemp, up went the wing, up went all that was left of Harman Blennerhassett's mansion in the wilderness. In Canada, whither the Blennerhassetts had moved following the embargo of the War of 1812 and the collapse of the cotton market, Mrs. Blennerhassett wrote a melancholy elegy to her Ohio River home: Like mournful echo, from the silent tomb, That pines away upon the midnight air, While the pale moon breaks out, with fitful gloom; Fond memory turns with sad, but welcome care, To scenes of desolation and despair, Once...
...This time the workers are Carolina mountain folk, well observed by Novelist Grace Lumpkin in her To Make My Bread and well transplanted behind the footlights by Adapter Bein. The mountain folk, frozen out of their hill homes one cold winter, go down to town to work in the cotton mills. There life as "lint heads" is far from the fine things they expected. Tuberculosis gets the men while those women whom pellagra spares are tempted to eke out a living from the wages...
...Odium will be pretty well out of North American. But chief reason for sale of Blue Ridge was the large profit returned on the investment. Lehman Bros. The banking house of Lehman Bros, dates from 1850, when Brothers Mayer and Emanuel Lehman, emigrating from Germany, started a cotton commission business in Montgomery, Ala. The Civil War ruined the cotton business; in 1867 the brothers moved to New York. They helped form the Cotton Exchange, floated bonds for traction and ferry companies, backed early issues of Sears, Roebuck and Woolworth preferred. Mayer died in 1897, Emanuel in 1912. The present partnership...
When ears had been plugged with cotton, a signal was given--and some thousand students jolted in their beds. With their heads projecting inside the bass bell, the pair swinging the clapper have never been able to hear the tinkling syncopation of their rival bellman. Hence the regular bass booming is completely divorced from the higher pitched trills...