Word: tobaccos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dogs filled the noses, the brave piping of calliopes filled the ears and the bright glare of rockets filled the eyes of some 3,000,000 U. S. country folk celebrating Fair Week. September would not see the end of this rural revelry, for the South, busy with its tobacco and cotton, cannot frolic much before frost...
Portly, sales-minded Richard Reynolds, nephew of Winston-Salem's late Tobacco-man Richard Joshua Reynolds, arrived at the building business by the devious route of tin foil for tobacco and the Eskimo Pie, wrappings and labels for ham, candy boxes, ginger ale bottles, other fast-selling packaged products. Few years ago he made the discovery that the foil which wraps an Eskimo Pie can also be used to insulate a house. It was really no discovery at all because the Germans had long used shiny foil for insulation because of its high reflective power. Foilman Reynolds...
Some words Carol knows: lemonade, candy, ice, cream, lollypop, cigar, cigaret, tobacco, pants, pajamas, locust, katydid, Mae West, come, up, see, me, some, time, buzz, rhumba, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, nine, ten, seventeen, hippopotamus, lavatory, belch, sneeze, Jesus, pop, eye, goofy, flush, toilet, groceries, fruit, nuts, nertz...
...June. From States as far off as Pennsylvania and New York its adherents gathered, setting up quarters in 500 tents. They fed themselves at the camp ground's restaurant or bought their victuals from its stores. They knew better than to wear low-necked dresses or to use tobacco or alcohol. Zealous believers in a God whose Son might return to earth any minute, they prayed, sang, shouted night after night until last week when two husky ministers ducked numbers of them in a big baptismal tank, sent them home for another year...
Married. Jayne Dunham Shadduck, 19, cinemactress, divorced wife of Playwright Jack Kirkland (Tobacco Road); and Henry J. Topping Jr., 21, Manhattan socialite, heir to a $7,000,000 tin-plate fortune; in Armonk, N. Y., with Proprietor John K. ("Mooey-Mooey") Kriendler, of "Jack & Charlie's," Manhattan ex-speakeasy, as best man (TIME...