Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sweet to hear the watchdog's honest bark...
...caught in a red-handed murder. It took a military tribunal and a firing squad to set Grammy really free. "He heard a rumble and roar, like a thousand peals of thunder, and he landed squarely in the middle of Free Heaven, right on the lap of the Sweet God A'mighty King Jesus...
...withers, the whole plant dies. Mexicans commonly intercept the climax by cutting out the stalk bud as soon as it shows, hollowing out a basin in the central core. The plant pours its banked energy into the place where the flower-stalk ought to be, produces a basin of sweet sap from which Mexicans make their national drink, syrupy pulque. By distilling fermented pulque they make mescal, a potent liquor. By letting the flower stalk grow, drying and slicing the firm pith, they get natural razor strops, insulating material...
After a week the deer had grown accustomed to being gaped at, was eating the sweet corn and drinking the water lowered daily from the cliff, sleeping on a bale of hay. Hemlock branches and moss were strewn across the five-foot-wide plank bridge, a trail of salt sprinkled across it as a lure. Park officials were deluged with rescue suggestions. One man wanted to put an opiate in the deer's water. Another suggested a jacklight to lure the buck across the bridge at night. A farmer offered to bring a flock of sheep, place them reassuringly...
...godmother of his first child. Author Anderson went to see her. She seemed to him "an American woman of the old sort, one who cares for the handmade goodies and scorns the factory-made foods, and in her own great kitchen she is making something with her materials, something sweet to the tongue and fragrant to the nostrils...