Word: farmhand
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...after he read Robert Ingersoll, married a Kentuckian, studied law but never practiced, taught school, sold textbooks, became a Bull Mooser and a Woodrow Wilson internationalist. Joe, the sixth of seven children, was born in Crookston, Minn., in 1905. Joe played football at high school, worked as a farmhand and went to Antioch College. He topped off his education at the University of Minnesota and got a job on the Minneapolis Journal as a $15-a-week reporter...
Then the hate of white men for their Negro neighbors burst forth in a lynching bee seldom equaled for viciousness in the state. It began at the jail in Monroe (pop. 4,000), only 40 miles east of Atlanta. There Roger Malcolm, 27-year-old Negro farmhand, was in trouble. He had stabbed a white man. He had been locked up for ten days. The white man was still in the hospital...
...that. The game went only six innings. On Wednesday Company C kept up the good work by nosing out D in a well-played game by the score of 4 to 3. Ash Carter turned the win in for his mates who beat Bill O'Neill, former Cleveland Indian farmhand...
...Fighter. It was totally unlike Ernie Bevin to duck a slambang, winner-take-all fight. Fighting had been his meat & drink when he rose from farmhand to be an unpaid union secretary, then a big-time Laborite, organizer of the 1926 General Strike, and founder of Britain's biggest independent union, the powerful (850,000 members) Transport and General Workers...
...Help Wanted. In Kansas City, a farmhand was advertised for. Said the sarcastic (and successful) ad: "No work to do; must be able to sit in rocking chair on cool, south porch and come to meals unassisted...