Word: grains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rain fell one day last month in a little Kansas town called Ulysses, in Grant County. A local correspondent for a grain elevator house flashed the word to his Kansas City office. Direct wires carried the news to Chicago and Manhattan, where cables whipped it on to Liverpool and Buenos Aires. It was only a matter of minutes before all the world's wheat speculators knew that at last rain had moistened the dry wheat fields of the U. S. "dust bowl...
...Lady Consents" means that Ann Harding consents to her husband, Herbert Marshal's running off with nasty, flinty Margaret Lindsay, and then consents to take him back. It isn't hard to understand Herbert's return; what requires the grain of salt is his defection in the first place. The dialogue in this picture is genuinely artistic, and so is the way it is said. One's skeptical crust is very likely to be pierced, with a resultant sympathy for the folly, fortitude, and final triumph...
Divorced. Alan John Villiers, 32, famed literary deep-water sailor (Grain Race, The Last of the Wind Ships, By Way of Cape Horn); by Daphne Kaye Harris Villiers; in Melbourne, Australia. Grounds: desertion. Rarely ashore in the past 17 years, Sailor Villiers two months ago piloted his full-rigger Joseph Conrad into Melbourne after a 16-month journey from England, prepared to set sail for an unnamed Pacific island in search of gold...
Patty Berg began to play golf about four years ago, because her father, a well-to-do grain-broker, disapproved of her previous pastimes. She had been manager and halfback for a small boys' football team. Using a set of sawed-off clubs he gave her, she qualified for the championship flight in the Minneapolis tournament a year later. After this her father bought her a new set. Patty liked these so much that she took them to her bedroom every night, stacked them up against the wall before going to sleep...
...these two lineups should occur, the final result of the election would be determined in the remaining area where the Democrats are at present least strong, the Republicans least weak. That area, roughly bounded by the Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains, approximates the grain belt. There Kansas has 9 electoral votes, Minnesota, 11, South Dakota 4, Wisconsin 12, Wyoming 3, Colorado 6. Total...