Word: pitchforked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ever since the day in 1930 when his American Gothic won $300 and a bronze medal from the Chicago Art Institute, the name of Grant Wood has echoed persistently throughout the land. In five years, Artist Wood's picture of the bleak, bald Iowa farmer with the pitchfork and his daughter with the cameo and the printed apron has become almost as well known to the U. S. Public as Washington Crossing the Delaware. Yet not until last week did Manhattan's Ferargil Galleries succeed in borrowing American Gothic from the Art Institute of Chicago, Dinner for Threshers...
...Silas Barnaby kidnaps one of the Three Little Pigs and plants a string of sausages in Tom-Tom's house to make it appear that Tom-Tom is guilty of the crime. Tom-Tom is sentenced to exile in Bogey-land but before its inhabitants?miniature King-Kongs with pitchfork teeth?have time to destroy him, the villagers of Toyland discover the real culprit. This leads first to a heroic rescue of Tom-Tom by Ollie and Stannie and finally to a war in which the bogeys are decimated by a regiment of wooden soldiers...
Mussolini strode up to the wheat with leg-stretching strides, threw off his coat and hat, seized a pitchfork and began heaving wheat into the maw of the thresher. There was no need for the photographers to hurry. Sweating mightily, Thresher Mussolini pitched wheat into the machine for one full hour while the peasants of Sabaudia, hoarse from their usual heavy doses of quinine, sang folk songs to him. An official called time and then handed him a pay ticket for 2 lire, 10 centesimi (18?), the usual wage for an Italian farm laborer's hour of work. Puffing...
Sleepless for 36 hours at a stretch, indefatigable Milo Reno popped up within six days at Minneapolis, St. Paul, Omaha, Des Moines, Chicago and Kankakee to recruit strikers and sympathy. He requested the NRA's approval of his banner: a green eagle clutching a pitchfork with FHA above and "We Are A Part" below. After listening to the President's radio talk to the country, promising higher commodity prices (TIME, Oct. 30) Milo Reno declared...
...walked out of the Oval room of the White House with his revised Senate bill. Before the Senate silverites had cast an amazing total of 33 ayes for inflation of the coinage of silver, Senator Thomas had sent his perfected measure to President Roosevelt. It was a four-lined pitchfork with which to heave prices into the hayloft. A covering letter accompanied the bill. In this letter Thomas suggested that the President should adopt the program and take the power for the clubbing effect it might have in the June economic conference. When the heirs of Bryan disclosed their gain...