Word: stalked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...desk a Government check for $517 and handed it to stocky, red-faced William E. Morris, first Texas cotton planter to agree to plow up part of his crop. The check was the Agricultural Adjustment Administration's payment for 47 acres of cotton destroyed. Spotting a cotton stalk in Farmer Morris' left hand, the President declared: "That cotton looks better than that which we raise down in Georgia." ¶President Roosevelt approved a special N R A 3? postage stamp to be issued Aug. 15. Design: a farmer, a business man, a factory worker and a woman "walking...
...characters and characterizations which are about as lifelike as Victorian porcelain under glass, hitherto frail Miss Gish stands out full-blooded and alive. Gone is her pastel shy- ness, gone are her girlish gasps as she takes the part of the murderess who gave up a pallid suitor to stalk Electra-like after her vicious father and his paramour through the gloom of their New England parlor, killing one with a walking stick, another with a flat iron. Actress Gish still has a strong hold on her part in the otherwise flabby final scene when, a misty old lady self...
...banana, whose stalks hang upsidedown in the grocers, has leaves with blade 6 ft. to 8 ft. tall, 12 in. to 15 in. wide, petiole (stalk) up to 6 ft. long. (Stalk in cocoloba not over...
Ever since Franklin Delano Roosevelt's election uneasy Mexicans have been reflecting that the last U. S. Democratic President sent U. S. Marines to seize Veracruz briefly in 1914, sent Brigadier General John Joseph ("Black Jack") Pershing in 1916 to stalk Bandit Pancho Villa on Mexican soil. Last week Mexico City's independent Universal Grafico startled the Capital by printing the first Mexican attack on Democrat Roosevelt...
...strike at Tammany's purse. Hence the bankers can at last make the tiger toe the line; and willy nilly he must lick the hand that feeds him or he will not be fed. Only when the future sees present debts paid off will he be able to stalk through the streets with his wonted arrogance...