Word: husbandman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small, lyric, orchestral posies. There was no room on his plot for big symphonic and operatic hedgerows and shade trees. For this situation his biographer blames not Grieg but the character of the national soil. Norway's folk idioms were wild flowers, not acorns, and even the ablest husbandman could not make them sprout into oaks...
...HEEBINK Extension Dairy Husbandman...
...canvases shown were a succession of hulking figures, mostly nude and vaguely classical, painted in the earthy browns, yellows and reds of early Italian frescoes. Best of the lot was Mario Tozzi's solidly painted Farmer's Dream, a portrait of a plump, prosperous and sleepy-eyed husbandman, seated at a country café table by a jug of wine...
...itched to enlist, but on the Confederate side. As a youthful revenge on his family for not letting him go to War he married the daughter of a no-account neighbor, emigrated to Indiana to his Uncle Lafe's farm. There he worked with erratic energy as husband & husbandman. Crops & children came, but Tyler wanted wilder oats. At the news of Lee's surrender Tyler was furious, thought he had missed his big chance, meditated going West. Instead he began to call at easy Minnie Scott's when her husband was away. Tyler's wife tried hard...
...last week continued to make economic and perhaps political history when the Chicago price dropped to 83?¢ per bu., lowest since 1914. For the first time in 28 years corn sold in the pits 2¢ per bu. above wheat instead of the usual 20¢ or 30¢ below. The husbandman's cry of "Crisis!" rose more shrilly throughout the land. Chairman Alexander Legge of the Federal Farm Board abruptly departed from Washington on a second crusade through the West for wheat acreage reduction (TIME, Aug. 4). En route he paused at Chicago to confer with cotton growers...