Word: husking
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...meanest job on the farm, so I thought, was picking up potatoes, but I liked to husk corn. There were many other jobs supposed to be a boy's size, such as going after the cows up in the pasture, washing the buggy ( this was before the day of the automobile), sticking pumpkin seeds, pulling weeds in the garden...
...Umpire--Beede of Yale. Referee--O'Brien of Tufts. Field Judge--L. Withington '11. Lineman--Lieut. Madden. CAMP DEVENS NAVAL RESERVES Whitney, Donovan, Coolidge, l.e. r.e., Green Henry. l.t. r.t., Grotmat Barton, l.g. r.g., Schlachter Wiggin, c. c., Callahan Weston, r.g. l.g., Black Lyons, r.t. l.t., Bigelow Coolidge, Whitney, Husk, r.e. l.e., Elward Robinson, q.b. q.b., Purdy Palmer, l.h.b. r.h.b., Barrett Thacher, r.h.b. l.h.b., Gardner Minot, f.b. f.b., Gerrish
...evening represent an important expression of the "little theatre" movement, which has made itself so strongly felt in America. It is true that the scenery and settings are more meagre than those to which we are accustomed; for emphasis is placed upon the acting rather than upon the husk of the production. An attempt, is made to get away from present-day realism--to turn to simpler more imaginative forms which have a charm of expression that characterizes the strolling players of the Elizabethan Era. A feeling of intimacy is established between actor and audience...
...interesting collections, which were made among the Seneca Indians on the Cattaraugus Reservation in New York, have recently been received at the Peabody Museum. One of these, comprising pre-historic implements used in the preparation of food from corn, includes mortars, pestles, elm-bark dishes, corn-husk baskets, and ladles and spoons of wood. The other is a collection of the sacred paraphernalia, of a band of the Seneca tribe, which was worn in their sacred dances and ceremonies. It includes wooden and corn-husk masks, rattles of turtle shell and bark, and sacred tobacco...
...science and the understanding, seeks to give ideal expression to those abiding realities of the spiritual world for which the outward and visible world serves at best but as the husk and symbol. Am I wrong in using the word realities? wrong in insisting on the distinction between the real and the actual? in assuming for the ideal an existence as absolute and self-subsistent as that which appeals to our senses, nay, so often cheats them, in the matter of fact? How very small a part of the world we truly live in is represented by what speaks...