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While slang is usually inappropriate for formal settings, this assortment includes well-known expressions from that time, with some still in use today, e.g., blind date, cutie-pie, freebie, and take the ball and run. [2] These items were gathered from published sources documenting 1920s slang, including books, PDFs, and websites.
The name farm is used for specialised units, such as arable farms, vegetable farms, fruit farms, dairy, pig and poultry farms, and land used for the production of natural fibres, biofuel and other commodities.
Outside of Tennessee, Binford by the 1940s had already established a reputation in Hollywood and nationally as "the toughest censor in America". [20] Disgusted by The Southerner , he condemned the film as a "slur against Southern farmers" and for its characters being portrayed as nothing more than "'common, lowdown, ignorant white trash '".
The Farm of Seven Sins (French: La Ferme des sept péchés) (1949) – French historical drama film depicting the story of Paul-Louis Courier's murder at the farm where he had retired [278] The Fight Against Injustice (Danish: Kampen mod uretten) (1949) – Danish drama film about Peter Sabroe's fight for the well-being of children [279]
Films about farmers' suicides in the United States (2 P) Pages in category "Films about farmers" The following 120 pages are in this category, out of 120 total.
Hemp for Victory is a black-and-white United States government film made during World War II and released in 1942, explaining the uses of hemp, encouraging farmers to grow as much as possible. During World War II, the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 was lifted briefly to allow for hemp fiber production to create ropes for the U.S. Navy but after the ...
The goal of the film is to bridge the gap between food growers and food consumers by presenting farmers' and ranchers' perspectives on producing food. [7] The film aims to do this by focusing on the lives of six farmers in their 20s who describe their experiences of and views on modern farming and ranching in the United States.
Farm Families and Change in 20th-Century America (U of Kentucky Press, 2021) Fry, C. Luther. American Villagers (1926) online, heavily statistical. Fry, John J. " 'Good Farming–Clear Thinking-Right Living': Midwestern Farm Newspapers, Social Reform, and Rural Readers in the Early Twentieth Century," Agricultural History (2004) 78#1 pp.34–49 ...