Word: amber
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were an electric hedge clipper ($44.50) and a flamethrower for killing weeds and soil bacteria ($23.50). Much postwar equipment was made of light-weight metals; there were a rubber-tired magnesium wheelbarrow (16 Ibs., $34.50), and an aluminum rake ($5). Neater still, there was a garden hose made of amber-colored, semi-transparent plastic ($13-35 for 50 feet). In the routine descriptive words of garden men, it was "guaranteed to last a lifetime...
...morals on trial under Massachusetts censorship law, "Forever Amber" found a stout defender yesterday in the person of Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, who stated that the book did not "corrupt or deprave" him. Appearing as star witness for the defense in the current trial of Kathleen Winsor's risque best-seller, Professor Jones testified that the book "bored" his wife, and left his own moral standards unsullied...
Professor Jones was called by attorney Alexander Lindey, publishers' counsel, and after the Professor said he had read "Forever Amber," Lindey asked...
...Palm Beach, the Duke of Windsor made a remark that might just possibly foreshadow the biggest literary event since Forever Amber. He was thinking, said he, of writing his autobiography. But it might take a while: "I use the hunt-&-peck system of typing...
Kathleen Winsor became a banned author in Sheffield, England, but no prestige attached to it: the city fathers deplored Amber as utter rubbish...