Word: patches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hyperbole, too, is present, and in the prose where this purple patch appears: "Violence is almost visible, like a smonldering fuse under the city, as it creeps toward explosion...
...Class A" pictures ("unobjectionable and suitable for public entertainment"). Listed along with not a few mediocre films were Anne of Green Gables, Babes in Toyland, Baby Take a Bow, Marie Galante, One Night of Love, The Count of Monte Cristo, Great Expectations, Judge Priest, Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, Treasure Island, What Every Woman Knows...
...light and relaxing, a very fine interlude between study as well as a restful climax to a hectic Thanksgiving weekend. The female part of the audiences, if there were such, respectfully refrained from sighs and sobs at the motherly Paulino Lord as "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch." And W. C. Fields provided his usual drunken merriment for the rest of us. In short, it is a well-presented transcription of that touching novel which our sisters must have read, the climax coming when Fields takes Zasu Pitts' acceptance of his marriage proposal with a peremptory "Good", and then proceeds...
...Walter P. Chrysler could not raise ten tons of tomatoes an acre on his Dorchester County, Md., estate. Gentleman-farmer Chrysler dispatched a fleet of trucks to Florida, imported the finest half-grown plants, had them tended daily. Last week the tomatoes were harvested, weighed. The costly Chrysler tomato patch had produced the shameful yield of 7.95 tons an acre...
...noon thousands covered the hill above Fairmont Canning Co.'s field. They struggled down the slope and along the lanes cut four rows wide through the 15-acre patch of specially planted corn. In the field stood 18 huskers with their managers and trainers. Beside each was his brand new steel wagon drawn by a rubber-tired tractor. While four bands played and loudspeakers blared, National Guardsmen did their best to keep the friendly crowd from getting in the way of the contestants...