Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back of a beguiling rascal named Asa ("Ace") Burdette (Fred Stone). "Ace" has been a fiery leader of "Jayhawkers," those bellicose sons of the Middle Border whose ropes, pitchforks and rifles kept Kansas abolitionist because they did not want the agricultural competition of cheap slave labor. A noted boozer, tobacco-chewer and wencher, sly "Ace" is first seen confessing his sins to a camp-meeting audience so he can mount the rostrum and persuade the good folk to elect him Kansas' first Senator in 1861. He is elected, goes thoroughly jingo when the first shell bursts over Fort Sumter, becomes...
Everyone cheers. The crowd goes wild. The cloud of tobacco smoke eddies and swirls with the commotion. Another of the platform heroes steps forward. "Now, I don't want to speak ill of the dead," be begins. Silence. "So I won't say anything against Bacon." Again silence. He waits. Number 1 of the twin-bellies laughs uproariously. The crowd laughs. The speaker has said something fanny. More humor. The crowd laughs some more. The band plays "My Wild Irish Rose...
...Progressive Era, The War of Independence, The Grain Race, Stars Fell on Alabama, Of Thee I Sing, poems of Archibald MacLeish, Diego Rivera's Portrait of America, The New Dealers, Farewell to Reform, Vols. 3, 4 & 5 of Mark Sullivan's Our Times, Yachts Under Sail, Tobacco Road, Obscure Destinies, Union Square, One More Spring, Rabble in Arms, Road to Nowhere, Christmas Tree in the Woods...
...three months ago, weighted with his authority as Minister of Trade and Commerce, Chairman of the Royal Commission on Price Spreads and Mass Buying and an avowedly Conservative member of Parliament. It loosely and libelously arraigns Canada Packers Ltd., Dominion Securities Corp., Robert Simpson Co., Sir Joseph Flavelle, Imperial Tobacco Co., and T. Eaton & Co., to prove that "our economic structure is just upside down...
...born 56 years ago last month. His father was a ne'er-do-well traveling salesman, much addicted to the bottle. The spectacle of his ''good and gentle-souled father" drinking himself to death made Sinclair a life-long Prohibitionist. Nor does he use tea, coffee, tobacco. He came by his radicalism early. Writes Author Sinclair in his autobiographical American Outpost: "Floyd Dell . . . asked me to explain the appearance of a social rebel in a conventional Southern family. I thought the problem over, and reported my psychology...