Word: earliest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...DeForest, distinguished inventor, luckily took a record of President Eliot's speech given in praise of Dr. Asa Grey when a bust of the latter was unveiled in N.Y.U.'s Hall of Fame. This is one of the earliest talkie pictures ever made...
...exotic reputation, champagne was one of the earliest wines to be successfully produced in the U. S. Nicholas Longworth Sr., great grandfather of the late Speaker of the House, produced it in Ohio as early as 1825, and by 1855 had 1,200 acres of vineyards in cultivation near the confluence of the Little Miami and Ohio rivers. His "sparkling Catawba" at $12 a case sold 150,000 bottles a year. This frontier curiosity was wiped out by the Civil War. Great U. S. champagne country now is the Finger Lakes region of New York State...
...closer to the Vagabond's sentimental heart is one of his earliest, and probably most naive, pieces, entitled "Bread and Music...
Roosevelt 6 Love Nests. On March 6, 1933 the tabloid News announced that it would support the new President for one year, do what he would. One of the earliest and most enthusiastic subscribers to the NRA newspaper code, Publisher Patterson found when his year of grace was up that Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal had become firmly fixed in his affections. Of his readers' interests he declared: "Roosevelt and the NRA have taken the place of love nests...
...Wildfowlers since earliest times have for ever bewailed the disappearance of the good old days. 'Fowling,' they say, 'is not what it was, and probably never will be again.' Ever since Colonel Hawker wrote so scathingly of the Milf ord snobs -that unrivalled garrison of tit-shooters and shore-poppers, writers would have us be lieve that the sport has been on the down grade. But I believe this to be a fallacy...