Word: arbutus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appeared, a Fascist, for his "Purple Shirts" aimed to exterminate "the mongrel race." Mr. Musiker, the composer who wanted to present to someone a tune that was running through his head, found the Purple Shirts anything but worthy of it. Nor did he like the silly way Mrs. Arbutus, a Park Avenue matron, sang it. Finally, after Mr. Musiker's tune had gone around the world ("they made a lullaby out of it in China" -to plink-plink accompaniment from the orchestra), Mr. Musiker came upon some students, presumably radical since they were singing...