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Word: farmerly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...farmer is one who makes his money in the country and spends it in town, and an agriculturist makes his money in town and spends it in the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...diplomat is the ease with which he translates his corny U. S. traits into polished Chinese formulas. When he sits down at an important conference with Chinese statesmen, he begins by saying (in Chinese): "Well, boys, have I told you the one about the traveling salesman and the old farmer?" He can sing Chinese songs, too, and play the pipa (lute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Excellency in a Ricksha | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Marriage Revealed. Jesse Hilton Stuart, 32, brawny, rambunctious, hill-bred Kentucky poet and short-story writer (Man With a Bull-Tongue Plow, Head O' W-Hollow), farmer, onetime highschool principal; and Naomi Dean Norris, 31, Greenup, Ky. grade-school teacher; in Ashland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...demarcating what Society calls Society from what the public calls Society (run-of-the-mine Social Registerites). Notably present: Mary A. (for Alrichs) Steele, tall, blonde, beauteous daughter of the late Socialite Banker John Nelson Steele, earlier this year the candidate of Stork Club's Pressagent Charles ("Chic") Farmer for 1940 Glamor Girl. Notably absent: Patricia Plunkett, shapely, blonde daughter of Mrs. Dunbar Plunkett, suggested by Glamorizer Farmer as substitute candidate when Mrs. Steele yanked Mary back into the shadows of glamorless respectability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...Victory-Frank 0. Hough-Carrick & Evans ($2.50). A heroineless, fact-footed tale about a young Quaker farmer who turns Continental scout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fifty Man Years | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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