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During the 1930s, prior to indoor plumbing emerging, a lot of people in the farming community had to use outhouses to take care of their business. They didn't have bathrooms inside their homes...which meant that they had to tiptoe out across the lawn…

Cracker Jack coined the motto "The More You Eat, the More You Want" in 1896 as well. It fed into the early beginnings of American consumerism and leisure in the early 1900s and for years to come. In the novel, Ruthie yearns for more after only…

The tendency for spending on cosmetics and other small luxuries to increase during times of economic hardship.

This phenomenon is brought to life when one recalls the used jalopy dealership inter-chapter of "Grapes of Wrath." While the Lipstick…

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A Harmonica is easy to carry. Take it out of your hip pocket, knock it against your palm to shake out the dirt and pocket fuzz and bits of tobacco. Now it’s ready. You can do anything with harmonica: thin reedy single tone, or chords, or melody with…

A guitar is more precious. Must learn this thing. Fingers of the oft hand must have callous caps. Thumb of the right hand a horn of callous Stretch the left-hand fingers, stretch them like a spider's legs to get the hard pads on the frets (362.)