Word: hoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worked in the fields all his life along with the rest of the hands. On weekdays except Saturdays he wore linsey-woolsey breeches and a loose blue shirt, open at the neck, and from sunrise to sundown, except for the hour of his nap, he would plow and hoe cotton, pull fodder, thin corn. . . . On Saturdays, the year round, he would put on a white shirt with a black shoestring tie and a black frock coat and black trousers and would drive in to the Courthouse in the carriage to attend to public affairs." He "regarded office-holding...
...Hill, L. C. '46, Dunster B-22 ELI 0944 Hilton, F. H. Jr., '46, Lowell K-21 ELI 8072 Hitz, B. D. '44, Kirkland B-21 KIR 5844 Hobbs, F. W., III '46, Adams D-23 ELI 0750 Hodgson, W. S. '43, Claverly 14 KIR 5695 Hoe. E. L. '45, Dunster E-24 ELI 1318 Hoffman, I. '45, Leverett F-23 KIR 1912 Hoffman, F. de '45, Lowell E-54 KIR 2090 Holland, D. T. '45, Adams C-47 KIR 2199 Holmes, J. '43, Eliot G-11 KIR 2863 Holton, F. D. '46, Leverett B-23 ELI 8475 Hood...
...With a Hoe. Ambrose Bierce once told Edwin Markham that The Man with the Hoe would one day kill him. Instead the poem made Poet Markham $250,000 before he died (of natural causes) at 87. It also made him the idol of a small army of would-be biographers who have besieged Son Virgil Markham, a mystery writer, for the privilege of writing the poet's life. Each claimed that Poet Markham had authorized him to write his official biography...
...Wellesley Hills, Mass., with whom Virgil Markham has exchanged subacid letters in the New York Times. Mrs. Hamilton not only claims that Poet Markham authorized her to write The Intellectual Biography of Edwin Markham. She also claims that she possesses the original manuscript of The Man With the Hoe. Another "original" was bought by a private dealer for $700 several years ago. Virgil Markham owns a third "original...
Woman with a Hoe. Every few weeks somebody in the U.S. wonders what Gertrude Stein is doing...