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Twenty thousand people fringed the long-rowed field, speculating as to who would be the winner. Walter Olson of Rio, Ill., who can strip a shuck from the stalk and send one ear over his tailgate with another right behind it, who uses either a steel peg or a hook impartially, was not competing. He won last year and the year before. But Harold Holmes and Orville Welch, two Illinois boys who had won their State's championship, were known to be spry harvesters. Then there was Fred Stanek of Fort Dodge, Iowa. Three years...
...great deal of value in Miss Joyce's cogent analysis of the situation. As she says: "To sum up, the most important thing in life is good taste." It might be added that if a man shows as good taste in the selection of his clothes as surely Peg O' their hearts has shown in the selection of her husbands, he is, as she so wisely puts it, likely to prove a gentleman in other things...
MOBY DICK?John Barrymore appropriately tempestuous as Peg-Leg Ahab (TiME...
...Farm Board declines to reveal but Chicagoans imagine he had political backing from Wisconsin. He conducted his trading through his brother John, now reinstated, with much swagger. Their operations in the pit caused much lifting of eyebrows among veteran traders. Their efforts to bull wheat to the peg price of $1.18 failed. When the price rose on dry weather reports, the Kelloggs sold Government wheat heavily, took a profit, helped to produce the next slump, arouse the ire of growers. This month Stabilization Corp. held its first annual meeting, reduced Mr. Kellogg to a vice president. Selected for president after...
First displayed by peg-trousered underclassmen at the Stanford-California game of 1898, the token was paraded under California noses accompanied loudly by the contemporary byword: "Give 'em the axe!" A group of muscular Californians, incensed, wrested the axe from Stanford, bore it away to Berkeley where, for the past 31 years, it has remained. The annual California axe rally has been a thorn in Stanford's suntanned side...