Word: straw
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Byproducts. "Excellent paper can be made from straw, cornstalks . . . artificial gas from straw . . . starch, flour from sweet potatoes. . . . Rayon from the fuzz on cotton seed. . . . Dynamite, linoleum, flour from peanut shells...
...when the last Prussian troops marched out of Paris, crowds of bourgeois housewives expectorated lustily. Great bonfires of straw were burned to "purify" the Place de la Concorde. From German Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle) and Coblenz the last Belgian and French troops marched out last week. There were bonfires on the Rhine hillsides, but no expectoration. Rhinelanders waited until the last troop trains had gone, then young folk danced in rain wet streets, old folk breathed an earnest Gott Sei Dank! The Second Zone of Allied Occupation was free...
...hundred miles from Cambridge. For decades they walked across the fields to visit with one of the five or six thousand families settled about Massachusetts Bay, then they rode post coaches to Boston in an hour later they came home from debates across the Charles their feet buried in straw on the floor of a horse car later still in electric street cars they made the trip from Marleave's Cafe in twenty five minutes and now they drop into the subway and are rushed under the river get a drink at a Boston blind pig and are back...
General Moses took a fast train to Chicago as other Senate warriors loudly complained that he had reflected not only on the Insurgents but "on their mothers and fathers." General George Norris of Nebraska, seizing a handful of straw from some pottery in an exhibit (see below), waved it over his head and cried: "This packing is probably fodder for us wild jackasses...
...unpleasantness in Wall Street, the financial atmosphere of Cambridge has become distinctly heavy. A term bill is bad enough, the anticipated outlay for the Yale week-end will be worse, and for those who sport license plates of dashing colors the thought of registration and insurance is the last straw. That such an accumulation of gargantuan expenses should be presented at one fell swoop is inexcusable. Does it mean that Harvard undergraduates will have to follow those of Princeton and give up their automobiles entirely, or will University Hall or Brattle Square devise some even more devilish solution...