Word: milk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...manufacturing a brassiere for cows. A canvas affair, constructed with four elongated sacks which cradle a cow's teats, it was invented by a Phoenix, Ariz. psychiatrist. He confidently estimated that it would increase bossy's production from 25 to 35% by aiding the flow of milk into her udder...
Warrington, as hundreds of Marylanders know, has kept two cows for years. He kept a horse, too, and it followed him like a big dog. But it was the cows that stirred up the Government. The Bureau of Internal Revenue ruled that Warrington must pay income tax on his milk & butter money, but it wouldn't let him deduct the expense of feeding the cows...
...fellow, 'Why, I'm still up making butter when you folks in Washington are in bed, or gallivanting around. I've made butter at midnight. When I get out of my side of the bed in the morning, my wife gets out her side and she milks one cow and I milk the other.' " But the Government wouldn't give in. Neither would Warrington. He sold the cows...
...hurt him to do it. "I used to strain myself a quart of milk every night and put it in the refrigerator. Next morning I had it for breakfast. The first glass was pure cream. I ain't drunk any milk since...
...yellow fever in Surinam, his mother lived in Salem as a recluse; his uncle, Robert Manning, took charge of Nathaniel's education and alienated the boy thoroughly. He became evasive and apparently indolent, writing in puns and private language to his sisters, even writing invisibly, in skim milk-a trick that later seemed symbolic of some of his tales. His vivid older sister Elizabeth, who seemed the genius of the family, troubled his imagination. "His early stories," Cantwell observes, "deal often with the rather mortifying masculine experience of encountering women whose sexual experience is greater than...