being in the straw
1Straw — is an agricultural by product, the dry of a cereal plant, after the grain or seed has been removed. Straw makes up about half of the yield of cereal crops such as barley, oats, rice, rye and wheat. In times gone by, it was regarded as a useful by …
2Straw plaiting — is a method of manufacturing textiles by braiding straw and the industry that surrounds the craft of producing these straw manufactures. Straw is plaited to produce products including hats and ornaments, and the process is undertaken in a number… …
3The Band Concert — is a famous 1935 Walt Disney cartoon in which Mickey Mouse is conductor of an outdoor orchestra.PlotMickey s orchestra has the following lineup: Goofy (clarinet) and a similar character (Gideon Goat?) (trombone), Clarabelle Cow (flute), Horace… …
4The Hollow Men — (1925) is a major poem by T. S. Eliot, a Nobel Prize winning modernist poet. Its themes are, like many of Eliot s poems, overlapping and fragmentary, but it is recognized to be concerned with: post War Europe under the Treaty of Versailles (which …
5The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship — The Flying Ship or The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship is a Russian fairy tale. Andrew Lang included it in The Yellow Fairy Book and Arthur Ransome in Old Peter s Russian Tales .Uri Shulevitz illustrated a version of Ransome s tale, The… …
6The Oldie — is a monthly magazine launched in 1992 by Richard Ingrams, who for 23 years was the editor of Private Eye . It carries general interest articles, humour and cartoons, and has an eclectic list of contributors, including Miles Kington, Ned Sherrin… …
7The Pretty Little Calf — is a Chinese fairy tale collected by Wolfram Eberhard in Folktales of China . [Wolfram Eberhard, Folktales of China p 41 The University of Chicago Press Chicago, 1956] ynopsisAn official without children left home to take up his post. His first… …
8The Ballston Terminal Railroad — was an electric powered trolley line that served industries along the Kayaderosseras Creek in the Town of Milton, Saratoga County, New York State. It was a terminal railroad, which means it had an interchange at one end (in Ballston Spa) but… …
9The Bronx Is Burning — Format Drama Created by Jonathan Mahler Directed by Jeremiah Chechik Starring John Turturro Oliver Platt Daniel Sunjata …
10Straw wine — Grapes, laid out to dry Grapes, laid out to dry Straw wine, or rai …
