Word: plowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charles Conklin, a farmer of Sussex, N. J., has a bantam rooster with four wings. The extra flippers are attached to the rooster's legs. When the fowl runs he kicks up as much dust as a rotary plow and when he hops into the air he looks like a biplane...
...Mills, as the President's spokesman, appeared before a Senate committee to urge advances to private corporations for self-liquidating construction, only to have the Senate reject it. Last week the President retreated from his own proposal when he saw it extended to the smallest merchant, the one-plow farmer, the corner bootblack...
Adman Younggreen viewed his step as "hot news." Previous hotspots in his upward rush from obscurity in Kansas: U. S. Air Corps in the War (emerging a captain); sales manager for J. I. Case Plow Works in Racine; presiding over the International Advertising Meeting in Berlin (1929); telling the U. S. Press, upon returning from Europe, that while his wife was dancing in a London night club she touched the Prince of Wales (TIME...
...desire than in search of desire to satisfy, Author Wescott catches glimpses of economic difficulties now & then. With so much trouble dead ahead, one looks for less complaint, more cure. But the only cure offered is the one proposed by Tolstoy's peasant, who, when Tolstoy interrupted his plowing to ask him what he would do if he knew that the world was next day coming to an end, scratched his head and answered, "I would plow...
...come to think Bill was always willing to take a drink. If the job was tough, be it hot or cold, You could get it done if Bill was told. He'd fix the fence, or skin a cow, Or ride a bronc, and EVEN PLOW, Or do anything, if you told him how. Like many men in the oldtime West, On any job, he did his best. He left a blank that's hard to fill For there'll never be another Bill. Both White and Black will mourn the day That the "Biggest Boss" took...