Word: mows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Salvation Army General Evangeline Booth, said Lady Astor, was "up to the neck in the Cliveden Set," since she often comes to the estate. Franklin D. Roosevelt was once "compromised" there. During the War, when the estate was a military hospital, he came out and helped mow Cliveden's lawn. Since Bolshevists Leonid Krassin (died, 1926) and Gregory Sokolnikov (since "purged") were once entertained at Cliveden, Lady Astor thought Kremlin Set might be a more apt title for those she entertained. Other Cliveden Set members: Charles Chaplin, Will Rogers, Emma Goldman, Herbert Hoover, James Ramsay MacDonald, numerous Rhodes scholars...
Since 1795, when Louisiana's Etienne de Bore grew the first U.S. sugar cane for commercial use, cane crops have been harvested, like cotton, by hand. Negroes mow their way through the cane fields with knives like tropical machetes. Efforts have been made to mechanize the reaping of both cotton and sugar. Several cotton-pickers have been invented which have proved that they can pick cotton, but their practical efficiency and adaptability have been seriously disputed, and they have so far made no visible inroads on the South's labor economy...
...hideous, crude and amiable as Charlie is tart, slick and natty, Mortimer chatters for only one sequence, after Charlie has taxed Edgar Bergen with ingratitude, but this is enough to enrage his predecessor. Says Charlie McCarthy: "This is the meanest trick you ever played on me. . . . I'll mow him down...
...Revisiting my native land after an absence of 40 years," see Rome fiddle while Italy burns at both ends-in Africa and at home. A six-month drought compels the peasants to mow down their stunted winter wheat and feed to the starving livestock. The Battaglia del Grano, the Wheat Battle, of 1938 is lost. Three-fourths of Italy's bread requirements will have to be bought abroad with "old, the gold wrung from meagre exports and the tourist trade, the gold earmarked for coal, oil, steel, copper, nickel, tin -for a thousand commodities Italy lacks and must have...
Dean seemed to want to know more about "this guy Conant," so he was informed of the Hicks question. This was a little too baffling, however, and he was more interested in telling his interviewer about how he was "gonna mow 'em down" after ten days or so. The pride of Deanville also had no comment to make on the Littauer School of Public Administration...