Word: hoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Examiner's roster of one-time contributors, including: Ambrose Bierce, Joaquin Miller, Mark Twain, Gertrude Atherton, Richard Harding Davis, Kathleen Norris, Charles Michelson. Developed on the Examiner were Cartoonists "Tad" Dorgan, "Bud" Fisher, Homer Davenport. The Examiner first published Edwin Markham's "The Man With the Hoe" and Staffwriter "Phinney" Thayer's "Casey at the Bat." Both were reprinted in the Examiners "Golden Jubilee Edition...
Clutching a flopping, broad-brimmed black hat and four books of his verse (The Man with the Hoe, Lincoln and Other Poems, The Shoes of Happiness, Eighty Songs at Eighty), hoary Poet Edwin Markham, 84, hobbled feebly into a Brooklyn court whither he had been summoned on petition of his sister...
...Polish Block and an Italian Block. The Italian is 5-ft. 8-in., 200-lb. Edmund Franco, left tackle, whom Coach Crowley calls the best college lineman he has ever seen. The Pole is 5-ft. 11-in., 190-lb. Center Alexander Franklin Wojciechowicz (pronounced Woe-gee-hoe-wits), whose hobbies are cooking and helping his mother crochet rag rugs. Last week Fordham's Franco, Wojciechowicz & colleagues blocked so efficiently that Purdue's Isbell, Drake & colleagues gained only 54 yards rushing all afternoon, one-third as many as they gained against Minnesota three weeks ago. Masterpiece...
...Herbert K. Hyde. A part-Indian who once studied elocution under Professor Lee, Nominee Hyde successfully prosecuted the kidnappers of Oilman Charles Frederick Urschel (TIME, Oct. 2 & 9, 1935). Last week he planned to out-josh Josh Lee, blanket Oklahoma with flamboyant oratory. Lee's slogan: "From hoe-handle to the U. S. Senate." Hyde's slogan: "From bootblack to U. S. Senator...
Birthday, Poet Edwin ("The Man with the Hoe") Markham: 84. Said he to Princeton University's English Department, his birthday hosts: "When you finish a good poem, you must be able to say 'ah,' as though you were hit in the solar plexus...