Word: righte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...right weather for husking is cold and clear?the husks, brittle then, break easily. At Renz's the air was warm and the ground muddy, but the wagons went fast. A good husker never looks at his wagon. He trains his team to move the way he husks, stand a pace, step a pace, to the rattle of the ears on the bangboard. White corn, yellow corn. 45 ears a minute thumping into the wagon. . . . An ordinary workman could not pick it up as fast as that even if it were husked. Red corn. . . . At a husking bee when...
...Died. Right Hon. Thomas Power ("Tay Pay") O'Connor, 81, "Father of the House of Commons"; of septic rheumatism; in London. For 44 years he held the same seat in Parliament; for 62 years he was a journalist. He was a wholehearted defender of the late great Thomas Parnell, imprudent Irish statesman. He gave George Bernard Shaw his first job as a music critic. Three weeks ago, illness forced him to suspend the last of his publications, T. P.'s & Cassell's Weekly (TIME...
Newsgatherers noting the growing popularity of knitting as a pastime for men in British society admired the handiwork of other noble needlemen-a handsome jumper by the Right Honorable the Earl of Harewood (formerly Viscount Lascelles, spouse of Princess Mary); scarves and mufflers by Baron Gainford, vice-chairman of the British Broadcasting Co., Ltd., and Baron Holmpatrick, famed Cavalryman...
...found Boardman Robinson, painter-cartoonist, asked him for a set of murals expressing the history of commerce. Some years before, Artist Robinson had concluded that the only excuse for painting was to subserve architecture and had applied himself to that problem. Delightedly he accepted the commission, but reserved the right to be his own master at all times, to make his own designs, be left alone. Mr. Kaufmann agreed...
...Vagabond primly believes that there are at least a few souls who perhaps struck last Saturday at just the right angle to come bounding back into the field of academic charms. Towards those men, towards those men who find themselves filled with a tremendous enthusiasm for accomplishment during the next few weeks, the Vagabond respectfully offers his encouragement and suggests the following lectures...