Word: barnyard
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Kentucky Ballads: Lord Batesman, Peggy Walker, The Barnyard Song...
...diet of man has been the subject for many dissertations, more or less profound, from that early day when the delectable Eve bit into the delectable apple, and found it good. It is a rule established in civilized countries that horses eat oats, men eat bread, and the barnyard fowl eat anything they can get. However, this rule does not hold in the less highly cultured parts of Africa, where, it is rumored, polite society is fond of serpent and other things, nicely browned...
...against Yale' barnyard straight football, Harvard also plays that type of offense. But Harvard has played for six years the same style and Yale by this time should be well versed in defensive play to meet Harvard's close formation. Also, Harvard, although wonderfully equipped in the backfield, will have to rely on Brickley to do most of the line plunging, and he is far interior to Wendell as a line smasher. Thus it would seem to depend on an awakening in the Harvard line to give Harvard any advantage over Yale in straight plugging football...
...instance, has caught the--Red Blood Craze. His cattleship story called "Murph"--well-constructed and boldly written and vivid as it unquestionably is--is too full of perspiration and profanity and filth. Mr. Petersen's leading character has nothing distinctive about him, excepting an odor like a New England barnyard after an April shower." This sentence is more suited to a report of the Sewer Commission than to a work of literary art. Even Mr. Calvert Smith's "Nueva Andalucia," a gracefully written and brilliantly colored--though uneven--story of South America, shows a similar tendency toward the odoriferous...