Word: mashed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Near Memphis, Tenn., bootleggers built stills in treetops above flood waters, peddled their wares by boat. Officials seized 12 giant stills, two with capacities of 750 gallons; destroyed 45 vats each holding 1,000 gallons of mash...
...earthquake on the Kentucky barrens without a shudder of recognition. No rifleman but will be excited by his careful account of how Kentuckians, for practice, drove nails and snuffed candles with their bullets; how Daniel Boone "barked" squirrels, hitting the limb under their chins to stun, not mash them. Florida land-boomers may read how Mr. Audubon struggled through primeval subdivisions in a hurricane. The odd naturalist, "Monsieur de T.," slaying bats in his bedroom with Audubon's rare violin, bears witness to backwoods eccentricity and hospitality. Floods, prairies, a great pine swamp, the canebrakes of the Ohio, midwinter...
...English, Ind., frenzied neighbors killed "mad" dogs, then ruefully discovered that the dogs had been lapping at the English garbage pails. The pails contained the townsmen's weekly residue of moonshine mash, and the dogs had been only drunk...
...Kewanee, Ill., one Glenn Beall, farmer, turned 50 hogs into a field of corn that had been under water for a long time. The grain had sprouted, turned to mash, fermented; greedily the hogs guffed and snuzzled. Soon a warm paradise bloomed in their brutish hides. They ran in circles, tottering. They knocked each other down, made love. Seven fell into a creek and drowned. Thirteen, eating too much of the alcoholic seed, perished in agony. Sitting safely on a fence, Farmer Glenn Beall watched a scene not unlike the one a Greek saw when amorous swine on an island...
Sausages and mash...