Word: crabbed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oriental Crab-Apples. It is difficult to write comprehensively about the oriental crabapples; there are so many of them and they are such a varied lot. In Asia the crab-apples behave in somewhat the same bewildering way as do the Hawthorues in this country; taken as a whole they form a complex assemblage, difficult to sort into such conventional pigconholes as species and varicitics. They probably hybridize in nature, they most certainly do in cultivation. Some are low shrubs, others are forest trees. Some bear fruits closely resembling the cultivated apple in size and shape, others have fruits...
Under the Sign of the Ram, the Bull, the Twins, the Crab and the Lion John Farmer toils and sweats through spring and summer from dawn to dusk. But under Virgo, when the sun slants toward its autumnal solstice, he lays down his tools and turns his thoughts to rest and fun. Last week as August gave way to September the time had come for the gala event of the farm year?the State Fair. In twelve great agricultural states the exciting aroma of hot dogs filled the noses, the brave piping of calliopes filled the ears and the bright...
...domestic market, astute politicians hasten to Washington, and, aided by Mr. Hearst, begin to invoke the deity of nationalism against the wicked and cunning Japanese. Yet despite their furor, figures for 1933 demonstrate that the only imports from Japan of any significance are raw silk, tung oil, and fancy crab meat...
...relay race in which Princeton has the inside track and a Yale runner has collapsed; a many-muscled Princeton gymnast about to rise straight in the air toward a pair of rings; a crew race on Carnegie Lake in which Harvard's No. 4 is catching a crab; a Princeton swimmer with the enormous feet of his kind; a hockey game suggestive of a ballet; a baseball game in which a Princeton player has obviously just hit a home-run against Yale...
Blue Points on the half shell, bisque of oyster crab, consomme a la Russe, bouchees of terrapin Maryland style, celery, olives, chutney, and boiled pompano, maitre d'hotel...