Word: hoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contents were historic. He had Ambrose Bierce, Gertrude Atherton, Joaquin Miller and Mark Twain on his payroll. Also Thomas Nast, Jimmy Swinnerton, T. A. ("Tad") Dorgan, Homer Davenport, Harrison Fisher, "Bud"' Fisher. In the Examiner first appeared "Casey at the Bat'' and "The Man with the Hoe." (A Negro doorman turned away Rudyard Kipling when he came peddling Plain Tales from the Hills.} Hearst hired special trains at the slightest drop of the journalistic hat to get big stories. And with the Examiner he tried his first crusading, to break the railroads' domination...
...cellulose. General Motors, Pyroxylin, safety glass. Four years ago the du Ponts gave him the toughest job of all: made him president of U. S. Rubber just a few months before the crash. U. S. Rubber, the only great non-Akron rubber company, has had a hard row to hoe, even for a rubber company. Its annual deficits have been...
...time to make over human society. . . . Nor is it a good time to change horses. . . ." ¶ "Dedicated to Franklin D. Roosevelt after hearing his lofty and noble appeal for the Forgotten Man'' were some verses by 80-year-old Edwin Markham, author of "The Man With the Hoe." Excerpt : Not on our golden fortunes builded high- Not on our boasts that soar into the sky- Not upon these is resting in this hour The fate of the future; but upon the power Of him who is forgotten-yes, on him Rest all our hopes reaching from...
...Corcoran. Calif., when arraigned on a charge of hitting his wife with a hoe, meticulous Julio Rodriquez denied the charge, declared it was not a hoe but a shovel...
...nine months babe & chimpanzee were inseparable. They quarreled occasionally, but not often. Together they learned to wear shoes, eat with a spoon, drink from a glass, use a rake & hoe, untie a slipknot. When the chimpanzee was scolded it cried like a baby. Soon both learned to understand a few words. At first the chimpanzee understood better than the baby. When Dr. Kellogg left the room the chimpanzee remembered for 30 minutes which door he used; the child forgot after five minutes. When Dr. Kellogg called, the chimpanzee was the first to answer...