Word: sown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...anti-baloney epidemic among politicians lies not in the politicians' honest hearts, but in the alert U. S. press, whose newsgatherers, observers, commentators and editors have spent many years trying to divest U. S. politics and politicos of the more obvious political shams and absurdities. Journalism, having sown well the seeds of satire, itself deserves credit for making "baloney" forbidden fruit...
...scattered among the grain growers. And if the one hundred thousand embattled farmers which Governor McMullen intends to head in their frontal attack next week are not a battalion of Grim Reapers as far as the Hoover cause is concerned, they have in the bag, at least, the easily sown kernels of discontent. Governor McMullen feels that the farmers, asserting themselves before the Wall Street gang, can reap at least their political harvest, but the callous press of his native state unites in calling his aspirations fertilizer...
...August the islanders will commemorate their sesquicentennial, the 150th anniversary of the landing of Captain James Cook. From the small beginnings of civilization sown by that great navigator a flourishing community of more than 250,000 souls has developed. Eight of the nine islands are now inhabited...
...beginning of a situation with the United States similar to that begun with Germany in 1903. It took twelve years for the seed then sown to germinate. Seed may be in the process of sowing at this moment in Switzerland. I hope not, but there is need for great patience on all sides...
...earth would all have more respect for our President if he lived and traveled in a style worthy of the U. S. I have traveled in almost every Latin-American country, and I know that $10 worth of increased prestige for our country can be reaped for every dollar sown in providing better living and traveling quarters for our President and for his Ambassadors in foreign lands. As matters stand, foreigners visit Washington and then go home to tell their countrymen that our President lives like what Sinclair Lewis calls a "babbitt." I have heard "babbitt" picked up and used...