Word: harvestable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paper. The noise came from a black cloud 500 miles wide sweeping down from West Africa last week at the rate of 100 miles per day. It was the rustling of billions upon billions of locusts' wings. Whirring swarms dropped down on fields ripe for the autumn harvest, and when they moved on there were no leaves, no grass, no growing things...
William Dean Howells was the first realist. Quite different from the trenchant, sensual realism of Heminway or D. H. Lawrence. For his was, as Emerson has suggested, the harvest of the quiet eye. His novels were dull with the dull ache of life, or they held the mild amusement which enters the life of everyman. Things seem to stagnate, as in "The Chance Acquaintance" or "The Silver Wedding Journey," or they advance slowly forward with the inevitability of passing years...
...James A. Farley, the Roosevelt campaign manager, was in Davenport, Iowa, last week to harvest a crop of 26 convention votes for his candidate. After pledging its delegation to use "all honorable means" to help nominate the New Yorker, the meeting howled down a proposal that Oklahoma's Governor Murray, who ran Governor Roosevelt a nip & tuck race in the Des Moines Register and Tribune poll, be named as second choice. Iowa Democracy also favored re-submission of the 18th Amendment to the States...
...oldest (106) and most famed of U. S. civic celebrations. New Orleans' Mardi Gras Carnival is for local socialites a formal, exclusive occasion; for merchants and hotelmen, a golden harvest; for visitors and the man-in-the-street one good long party. Last week's party began six days before Ash Wednesday. Through packed streets lumbered float after gaudy float bearing the cinematic tableaux of the Krewe of Momus. Red, green, yellow and purple flares dimmed street lights, sent choking fumes up toward windows from which thousands of heads leaned. At the Municipal Auditorium the parade halted, maskers...
...young man, Denton Massey, 31. grandson of the founder of Massey-Harris Co., Ltd., largest maker of farm implements in the British Empire. Graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Founder Massey is a kinetic, athletic Toronto socialite who worked in the shops and harvest fields of the family company before becoming an official in the Toronto factory. He is reputedly worth $1,000,000. A practical Christian, he is now a mild Socialist. Like Erdman ("Erd") Harris (also Toronto-born), Denton Massey appeals to youth, in a direct, personal manner. The enrolled class now numbers some 2.400, has outgrown four...