Word: cracker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...laugh in vaudeville. Generations of hoofers and comedians used it to epitomize U.S. hick towns. But though Peoria, Ill. lies in the corn belt, it is a pretty big town (pop. 105,087). It is also a river town, and it grew up around a whiskey keg, not a cracker barrel. Last week, after a new city primary election, Peoria had occasion to remind itself of its free-&-easy tradition once again...
...cracker with soup," queried Morley across the roaring Atlantic, "took some kale and landed in stir, what was going on?" Banker Auburn knew that a cracker was a Georgian, knew that kale was cash, and that stir was jail, but guessed that soup was also money. Corrected Professor Brogan happily: "High explosive for opening banks...
...crisis. He proclaimed total war as if it had never before been proclaimed on earth-not even after Stalingrad. The desperate measures he announced might stave off defeat for months. But to many, his threats must have seemed less like total war than total mobilization of the last broken cracker on the bottom of the barrel...
...Town Meeting" is devoted to the unrehearsed, give-&-take discussion of public affairs by assorted experts, is somewhat weighted on the conservative side. "Town Meeting," said the Digest's editors, will "implement the Digest's confidence in 'cracker-barrel' discussion ... as an essential part of the democratic process...
...what scoundrels those Army boys must be to have earned such punishment. Their's has been a bunk padder's fate, and we can offer little consolation. As you know, the mess hall was named for the former Admiral of the Supply Corps who "banished salt horse and cracker hash from the high seas." We will glady rename it for you boys in khaki if you can get the menu changed at Cowie Hall. In the meantime, we'll understand if, in your weakened condition, your vocal work is a little less fervent, your cadence not quite so thick...