Word: ploughed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Heather Reveller of Sporran, a Scotch terrier built like a midget plough horse, whose owner. Author Willard Huntington WTright ("S. S. Van Dine"), has kennels at Haworth...
...earnest committees throughout the land have been called upon for a solution. Some, driven to despair, if not insanity, have recommended the destruction of whatever there happened to be a surplus of. Such a remedy was the Federal Farm Board's recommendation - never followed - that cotton farmers plough under every third row (TIME...
...coined the name to rhyme with whiskey. Author and actor compromised on another spirit, the character became Seamus O'Tandy. Last time Actor Sinclair appeared in the U. S. (1927) he took part in two well-received plays by Sean O'Casey: Juno & The Paycock, The Plough & The Stars. Bad Girl is another novel which is plausible in its dramatized version. Season before last the book ranked as a best seller, later vying in popularity with The Specialist, the poesy of Edgar Guest and the Holy Bible. Because the story of the book was thin, most...
...interesting in spite of what it leaves out. It is wonderfully photographed in the flat, wheat-colored daylight of the steppes. Into a poverty in which peasants sleep with roaches running across their faces, and chop their houses in half when a family splits up, and plough, lacking a horse or an ox, with a cow in the traces, the Commune brings mowing machinery and a cream separator. Bold rustic humor finds rich material in the wedding of Fomka, the communal bull, for which the whole village turns out in Sunday clothes. Gathered in front of a barn gate, waiting...