Word: lowans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Eskimo Pie. Russell Stover himself was an lowan who took up candymaking almost as a hobby. In Omaha in 1922, he teamed up with a man named Christian Nelson to concoct a chocolate-covered ice-cream bar that became famous as Eskimo Pie. Stover and Nelson were rich within six months but soon got bogged down in a series of costly patent suits. After a falling out with Nelson, Stover started anew in Denver, began producing "Mrs. Stover's Bungalow Candies" with his wife Clara. So popular were his hand-dipped chocolates that Stover opened up five retail outlets...
Ironically, the tearful Marylyn Painter sounded practically lowan. "We love our home," she said. "We've sewed curtains and fixed Mark's room. We're quiet people. We watch TV, baby-sit for friends, play chess. I do play the guitar -that sounds bohemian, I guess...
...second term by the biggest margin (430,479 votes) of any candidate in state history, bringing with him nearly 100 new Democrats, most without previous legislative experience or special loyalties to the Governor. He hoped they would stay in line. "In this hour of unlimited promise," he said, "no lowan can afford to be antibusiness, antilabor, anti-farmer, anti-government or anti-progress." He also meant anti-Hughes...
...year), an extra $100 a year for airmail and special-delivery stamps, and an 11% increase in telegraph and long-distance-telephone allowances. Republican Gross failed in his efforts to force roll-call votes, but did set off some verbal fireworks. After a scathing attack by the lowan on congressional spending, including junkets abroad, North Carolina Democrat Harold D. Cooley snapped: "You sit back here and snipe year after year. If you don't want to go, why don't you just shut up?" Retorted Gross: "I'm going to continue to snipe at all junketing organizations...
...resurrection is the work of David E. Archie, 35, an Iowa journalist and part-time history buff. Last year, poring over back copies of Harper's Weekly in search of picture material for The lowan, a bimonthly magazine that he publishes in Shenandoah, Archie decided that Harper's authentic record of the Civil War might bear repetition during the war's centennial years. When a test mailing drew an enthusiastic response, he was in business...