Word: dotes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only a really brazen lover of the country could dote on these agricultural beauties without noting the rags and tatters that concealed some of them for many people and blotted them out entirely for others. U. S. farmers had little share of prosperity in the years before the crash. Depression deepened the problem, left farmers carrying into it a mortgage debt almost equal to income. In every 1,000 farms during the first six years of depression, 236 were foreclosed. Average value of farm land dropped from $48.52 to $31.16 per acre...
Farmer O. H. Thrasher and his 4,000 turkeys were in great demand last week around Torrington, Wyo. Because turkeys dote on grasshoppers, Farmer Thrasher's neighbors gladly waived normal objections to strayed or visiting flocks, begged the honor of his birds' attendance at dinner on the ground. So hearty was the welcome, so vast the offered meal, that Farmer Thrasher got up a rolling roost, trucked his capacious hens and gobblers from ranch to ranch...
...schooling with a horrifying mixture of sophistication and childish innocence. But it is not the brilliantly realistic description of fighting that gives The Mountains and the Stars its peculiar horror. This is supplied by Ungern-Sternberg's cruelty toward his own officers (he humors the rank-&-file, who dote on him). The high point of his officer-discipline is when he flogs an officer who has shot two Cossacks, then burns him at the stake-a scene which puts all stories of lynching in the primer class...
Andre Kostelanetz is a plump, semi-bald radio orchestra leader of high talent. Last summer he achieved the kind of publicity radiofolk dote on by flying from New York to Los Angeles and back on 13 consecutive week ends. In Manhattan he conducted a radio show; in Hollywood he would ask Lily Pons to marry him. On the 13th proposal she said, "Yes." Last week they were still unwed, but Musician Kostelanetz received a reward for his persistence...
...Carthage, Tex., close to the Louisiana State line, Henry Walton, big black buck, began to dote on the philosophy of Huey Long. Last week he got a pistol, used it to knock a storekeeper over the head, helped himself to the trade goods, conducted a brief reign of terror. Then he fled across the Sabine River. When pursuers arrived on the opposite bank, he shouted: "Stay on your side of the Sabine! Me and Huey Long is running this side." The constable of the Carthaginians, who had no wish to share their wealth, knelt down and drilled Henry Walton through...