Word: weeviled
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...saves his true longing for the South, "the land of the boll weevil, where the laws are medieval," And he whines, "I want to go back to Swance, Where pellagra makes you scrawny," and then he swears, "Old times there are not forgotten, Whoppin' slaves and sellin' cotton...
...Weevil's Chance. Some of the biggest stars in the Southern Democrat sky-Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd, South Carolina's Governor James Byrnes, Texas' Governor Allan Shivers, Georgia's Governor Herman Talmadge and Senator Walter George-promptly came out for Russell. All of them know that, at the moment, he has about as much chance of being nominated as a boll weevil has of winning a popularity contest at a cotton planters' picnic. Then what are they trying...
...Hear No Weevil...
...your Feb. 26 issue it is stated: In the nation's cotton exchanges last week it was quiet enough to hear a weevil nibbling a boll" Boll weevils have a long, hard bill, and they do not nibble a cotton boll. They puncture...
...nation's cotton exchanges last week, it was quiet enough to hear a weevil nibbling a boll. In Manhattan, New Orleans and Chicago, cotton traders stayed home; in Memphis, the cotton exchange's big quotation board was bare, and brokers sat around their Front Street offices playing gin rummy and dominoes. Cotton mills held their goods off the market, refusing to bid even on military contracts until they got at least a faint inkling of the score. In four weeks, the marketing system of the U.S. cotton industry had been slowly paralyzed by the price freeze...