Word: hogged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief difference between Negro Less Taylor, a tenant on the J. W. Copeland plantation in Washington County, Miss., and 200,000 other sharecroppers and renters in Mississippi, is that Less Taylor got for his lawyer old Percy Bell of Greenville, onetime chancery judge and independent as a hog on ice. Chief difference between Landlord Copeland and many another in the Yazoo Delta is that he did not get away with making a good thing of The Book. At Jackson last week, the supreme court of Mississippi reversed a Washington County Chancery judgment, declared: "According to the appellee's [Copeland...
Otha Donner Wearin is a 35-year-old farmer from the Vale of Nishna near Hastings, Iowa. He wears a permanent red necktie, has some ability at hog-calling, writes for farm papers. In the Roosevelt avalanche of 1932 he slid into the House but was not conspicuously New Dealish (he voted against AAA and NRA) until lately, when he has run with Maury Maverick's "Young Turks...
...knitting. Clicking her knitting needles faster & faster, Mrs. Bradford marshaled her troops. When Legionnaires got 275 high-school students to sign a petition asking for R. O. T. C., Mrs. Bradford's group got a larger number to petition the Board of Education for a course in hog-calling. One day, to the astonishment of Kenosha's labor leaders, the Legionnaires quoted A. F. of L.'s William Green in favor of R. O. T. C. Labormen immediately made wires to Washington hum. Next day William Green reversed himself...
...many playwrights, producers seem a kind of necessary evil. Not only because they may blow hot & cold; not only because they may meddle. Also because, as the playwrights see it, they hog too much of the profits, impose too much of a capital-&-labor relationship...
...Success when the onetime Sand Hog married as his second wife a pretty Daughter of the American Revolution, Middle-Western Miss Fern Lombard. It was Success when the small, swarthy little emigrant returned to his native France and bought for $750,000 a princely chateau in Touraine, ordering its ancient vineyard grubbed up to make a golf course which proved that Charles Eugene Bedaux had been thoroughly amalgamated in the American Melting Pot. It was Success for Mr. & Mrs. Bedaux to disport themselves on the Riviera with a wealthy Mr. and Mrs. Herman Rogers, one of whose dashing friends...