“Margaret B. Johnson from Alabama City, Alabama, patented a very interesting ear corn parer.”

“The water acts as the medium for moving the vegetables and for removing the bits of skin from the sides of the parer.”

“Keep this parer clean by scrubbing the inside with a stiff brush and rinsing well with water after using.”

“In fact, I have been seriously thinking about putting out a Randi doll, complete with fingernail parings and a scrap of my beard - so that it will really work, of course!”

“Mrs. Burns-Cooper, spurred by her mother-in-law, escalates the attack by criticizing Maud Martha's potato parings as too thick.”

“When she cut his nails, she was careful to keep the parings together and burn them.”