Word: plows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cotton South's 1,700,000 tenant farmers live by The Book, and The Book is not the Holy Bible. It is a ledger where "furnish" is entered. Furnish is credit for "side meat" (salt pork), molasses, corn meal, seed, sometimes for a mule and a plow. Landlords, or merchants dependent upon them, run The Book. Without furnish, few tenants could live through the winter, or plant in the spring...
Four years ago a poetic gusher called Man with a Bull-Tongue Plow, which consisted of 703 sonnets written in eleven months, called attention to a new U. S. poet: a six-foot, 207-lb., 30-year-old Kentucky hillbilly named Jesse Stuart. In those poems, as in his book of stories that followed two years later (Head o' W-Hollow), Jesse Stuart wrote prolifically, ingenuously, sometimes amazingly well about his mountain kinsfolk, neighbors and scenery...
...divulges that working in a steel mill made him decide that Carl Sandburg's poems about the beauty of steel were phony, and that he went away cured of wanting to imitate Robert Burns. In the end he confesses what readers of Man with a Bull-Tongue Plow long ago guessed: "I was not mastering poetry but it was mastering...
...hoist them to the surface, cut them with an ax. To stop this Irish interference, the 2,641-ton, Canadian-manned cable ship. Lord Kelvin, put out last week from Manhattan. Aboard was three-quarters of a mile of nickel steel chain, longest ever forged, to drag a submarine plow Western Union has been developing for the past three years. The steel "plow" weighs ten tons, is ten feet long, four feet wide, three feet high, resembles a gigantic stone boat. Beneath its rear end a keel furrows 16 inches deep in the ocean floor, feeds a cable over...
When her father left No. 10 Downing Street, Ishbel decided to employ her servants in the 17th-Century inn at Speen. Hard by Chequers, country home of Britain's Prime Ministers, the Plow became a stopping place for tourists who came to see the former hostess of No. 10 handing out half pints in the pub. She employed Ridgley, dubbed "Tinker" by his cronies, as her gardener, started village tongues to wagging when she drove about the countryside with him last summer. Drummer in the village band, Tinker gained further favor because he was Speen's ace darts...