Word: farmerly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Camden, Del., Farmer James Harris lost the silver platter he won as first prize in the pie-baking contest of the Peninsula Horticultural Society when Mrs. Hynson Cohee sent word to the contest committee that she had sold Harris the pie for 30?, and that she wanted her pie tin back...
...followed (although he did not know it) by roving White "bandits" bent on robbery. The Reds received reports that a crazy "foreign devil'' was leading an attack on them by marching a mile ahead of his troops. First Soviet citizens to whom Snow spoke-a farmer and a local official-said cheerfully, "Hai p'a," which Snow thought meant "I'm afraid." Snow did not know what they were afraid of, finally discovered that in Shensi dialect "Hai p'a" means "I don't understand...
...Farmers briefly relates the history of farming in the U. S., describes modern farming methods, tells how Tip Estes, a typical Indiana farmer, and his family work and live; discusses the income of rich and poor farmers, tenants, sharecroppers and laborers; sums up what the Government would or could do for farmers. What makes Building America unique is the extraordinary illustrations that tell the story so well that they need little explanatory text. Notably communicative photographs in Our Farmers include a grimy farmer drinking water from a tin cup beside his tractor, Tip Estes' family of eight sitting down...
...Orleans' teeming Charity Hospital two destitute farmer-patients, John Wesley Amos, 68, and Frank Chabina, 19, found that they also had in common blindness in their left eyes. Quicklime had seared the youth's, cataract bleared the oldster's. Last week old John Wesley Amos told Charity Hospital eye surgeons: "Frank's been very good to me. Not many young fellows would bother to cheer up an old man like the way Frank's done. If you figure one of my eyes can help Frank see, I want you to take my eye and give...
Where, by the way, did Mr. De Varon for his article, "And Now the Poor Farmer" discover "this strange and slithy credit system"? Our experts in Money and Banking have confessed themselves unfamiliar with this mechanism. Professor Haring's thesis would seem to be that the Vargas regime is not fascist but is simply an "old-fashioned South American dictatorship...