Word: shucks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plane young Mechanic Tommy Grayson (Gordon Oliver) works on crashes, G-men arrest him on the day he is to be married to Show Girl Gail (Arleen Whelan), force the plant to close. Tommy's father, mild-eyed, poker-faced Major Grayson ( Charles Grapewin), native as a corn shuck, sets out to prove him innocent. By such slightly off-the-record stunts as burglarizing the plane factory and carrying off Tommy's gauges to check, breaking into a neighbor's house and rifling his closet, the Major sleuths out a sabotage gang, finds most of them...
Dressed as a plain surveyor, bespattered with muddy water, a stranger registered in the Old Gilcher House, Danville, Ky., and was assigned to an attic bedroom with a dormer window, a shuck-mattress bed and tallow-dip candle, in the late '60s. The unknown guest demanded a decent room for the night, which infuriated the clerk who sized up the stranger and exclaimed: "That room is plenty good for the looks of you." Instantly the infuriated "surveyor" wrote across the page of the hotel register: "Surveyors: Locate the road just far enough away from Danville so its citizens...
...National Socialists (Nazis); he can count on the Christian Socialist (government) party; he needs the Heimwehr too, now holding the balance of power. His wearing of the Jager uniform was romantic bait for the patriotic Heimwehr. More bait was dangled in the rumor that the Austrian Army will soon shuck its dull German field-grey, re-emerge in the gallant blue of the old K.u.K (Kaiserliche und Königliche) Armee, long vanished from the modern world except in Hollywood cinemas. Such a uniform, besides snubbing Germany, would remind Hungarians that they had once marched beside Austrians in that uniform...
Twenty thousand people fringed the long-rowed field, speculating as to who would be the winner. Walter Olson of Rio, Ill., who can strip a shuck from the stalk and send one ear over his tailgate with another right behind it, who uses either a steel peg or a hook impartially, was not competing. He won last year and the year before. But Harold Holmes and Orville Welch, two Illinois boys who had won their State's championship, were known to be spry harvesters. Then there was Fred Stanek of Fort Dodge, Iowa. Three years...