Word: grist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deal Days. "Mound Bayou counts among its business, professional and industrial enterprises, two gins, three blacksmith shops, one garage, one tailor, two restaurants, five service stations, two contractors, two doctors, one dentist, one lawyer, one grist mill, one saw mill, two undertakers.† twelve groceries, and meat markets, one drugstore, one 5? & 10? store, one billiard parlor, one barber shop, one gun & locksmith and one newspaper. . . . Our municipal government is stable. Its wisdom is attested by the fact that many needed improvements have been foregone to prevent its citizens from being burdened with debts. The outstanding obligations of the municipality...
After four days, practically all Hindenburg patients had been discharged or transferred from the small New Jersey hospitals. In Dr. Buermann's hospital remained only seven of the original 26. The emergency was over. From now on only the regular grist of motor accidents would come in. But next month Dr. Buermann will renew an old interest upon the arrival of John D. Rockefeller Sr. to whom he is June-to-September personal physician...
...meal Japan is making on China, the efforts of Capitalism to control industrial production (see cuts.), Roosevelt's troubles with the Constitution ("The sacred right of everything to stew in its own juice"), the Ethiopian rampage of Mussolini, the Hitler pomposities all serve Cartoonist Low as good grist for his good mill...
...screen at its best can fail to be captivated by the charm, simplicity, and haunting loveliness of "Poil de Carotte," current attraction at the Fine Arts. Throughout this intensely arresting film one is aware of an earnest sincerity and gripping reality which afford a pleasing diversion from the superficial grist of the Hollywood mill. Rarely does a picture of this sort, dealing as it does with an acute psychological problem, meet with success from the several standpoints of characterization, sustained interest, and insight into the foibles of human behavior...
...trifles into folksy copy. When the Guests put their oleander out in the spring, it was duly recorded. It made the column again when they brought it in in the autumn. The children (Eddie Jr. & Janet), Mrs. Guest's pickles, a friend's fancy vest, were all grist for the rhymester's mill...