Word: feed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with which to buy land but the stolid Dutch farmers were as testy then as the merchants are now. For a long time many refused to sell. When the land was at last procured, cottages, studios and an inn were erected. Nearby a farm was laid out to feed the colonists. Besides painting, classes in furniture-making (later dropped), rug-weaving, metal-working and pottery were instituted. The farmers' attitude is indicated by a Le Gallienne anecdote: "One of them recently interviewed as to what he thought of the artists when they first came . . . replied, 'Wall, to tell the truth...
...which is much smaller than the female, cannot go without food for long, breaks down under the strain of heavy work, is too highly strung for circus life. Of the 500 flea species known, the human flea (Pulex irritans) is the only kind used in trained flea performances. Fleamen feed their healthy performers once a day, by simply rolling up their sleeves (usually the left one).* Sickly pets are fed more often. Since fleas live only a few weeks, a trainer must always have a large stock on hand. New, untrained fleas are kept in bottles, for two or three...
Said he: "The situation is one to cause a great deal of concern . . . the drought has mainly affected animal feed, the bulk of direct human food production [is] abundantly in hand. Nevertheless there will be a great deal of privation . . . due to the loss of income. . . . The American people will proudly take care of the necessities of their countrymen in time of stress or difficulty...
Beneath a brazier sun green pastures, fresh corn lands, lush gardens from Virginia to Kansas turned brown and sere. The Potomac, Ohio and Mississippi rivers dwindled to a sluggish standstill. Corn wilted away on stunted stalks. Grass shrivelled up before it could be hayed. Live stock, famished for feed and water, was hustled to slaughter before it died. Fruit and truck rotted. Catastrophe was upon a million farm families...
Rain or Shine (Columbia). For many years in vaudeville and musical shows Joe Cook has been putting over his personal kind of comedy. In this version of an old Broadway revue, now arranged without music to make the wisecracks come closer together, he gives his corn flakes and feed bill monolog, tells about his farm in Texas, introduces a new act about the escape of a gorilla. He is ably assisted and at times equaled by laconic Tom Howard and insanely grinning David Chasen. But the main amusement is by Cook and enough people like it to permit its classification...