Word: hogging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from reaching the people. L delivered an address over the municipal radio station pointing out that Mr. Walker as a State Senator and a member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture had appeared privately as attorney for the -% meat packers, who had in their possession time and again rotten hog livers and pigs' heads, frozen spotted eggs, putrid spareribs and beef brains, and pork snouts in an advanced stage of putrefaction...
...which seems peculiarly to typify their own aspirations. Some months ago the New Republic listed a few of the animals chosen by secret orders of brotherly love, and the conclusion was that only about four animals remained unchosen. The New York zoo will have no requests for a wart hog, for instance, not for ant-eaters. If they make good their promise to leave no organization unsupplied, however, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals will step in, and prevent them from supplying the Brotherly and Protective Order of Blind Mice with its accepted beast, or from painting...
...Ringling are the men who keep the five rings spinning. Once there were seven Ringlings ringing; five are dead. John and Charles now run the business. In the old days, John was a clown, appeared twice daily under the big top, sang, with extraordinary results, a ditty entitled Root, Hog, or Die. He has been accredited the shrewdest of the seven circus boys; when they put on their first show, in 1882, in McGregor, Iowa, where they had been born, he was the one who collected the admission.? In 1907, they bought all of the Barnum and Bailey interests...
Agriculture. Sown area was 10% greater; gross value of crops increased 4.5% at pre-War prices and 150% at current prices; hog and cattle increased 64% and from 5% to 10% respectively...
...lucerne, as it was then called, when it was still unknown among its own people. His books, his pamphlets, his articles, went broadcast over Kansas, over the U. S., beyond the continent. They had fetching illustrations, wonderful titles: The Corns that Kansas Farmers Have, Alfalfa's Affinity, The Hog's Happy Habitat, The Beef Steer and His Sister, The Helpful Hen. Some of his work went out at his own expense, some at the expense of the State. Once the Kansas legislature, fearful of the way he overshadowed it, denied him his annual appropriation for postage. There...