Word: harvestable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Between January, when the seeds of ambition are sown, and November, when the political harvest is reaped, September is the season when books & pamphlets flower most profusely in the ripening campaign. Some of the brightest tares blossoming in this year's fields...
...school. Edgar Lee Masters was a gruff, hardbitten, Kansas-born lawyer whose poems were bitter epitaphs on the wasted lives of a small town. Carl Sandburg, cheerful, intuitive, sentimental, had worked as a porter in a barber shop, sceneshifter in a theatre, truck-handler in a brickyard, a dishwasher, harvest hand, Social-Democratic Party organizer, newspaperman. As Edgar Lee Masters followed Spoon River Anthology with poems cut in the same pattern, but increasingly dry and progressively longer, Sandburg followed Chicago Poems with his songs of labor in Smoke and Steel, with tributes to the physical beauty...
...Hymen Harvest," p. 23 of TIME, Aug. 10, is typically TIME-worthy...
...adjournment was taken so that candidates could attend the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. By July 4 the tour had covered the southern "low country" counties along the coast, then skipped to the Piedmont. In mid-July the stumpsters knocked off for another week to allow voters time to harvest their tobacco crop, resumed their speech-making in the northeastern tier of counties...
...days later the same board predicted a "disaster"' corn crop of 1,439,135,000 bu., worst in 55 years, down 850,000,000 bu. from last year's harvest. *The phrase originated on the floor of the U. S. Senate in 1858 when South Carolina's James Henry Hammond challenged the economic power of the North thus: "You dare not make war on cotton. No power on earth dares to make war upon it. Cotton is King...