Word: asparagus
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...Vice President, motoring down to Boston to see Owen D. Young (his co-worker in producing the Experts' Reparations settlement) from Manchester, stopped for half an hour to call at White Court. He said the President showed him the place including the lettuce and asparagus, and complained to the newspaper men that his Manchester speech, although it was "the best I ever made," had not received much publicity...
While more southerly states were enjoying early crops of asparagus, Maine was the first to produce an institute for the 1925 season. At Bowdoin College (Brunswick), in celebration of the centenary of the graduations of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Nathaniel Hawthorne, the Institute of Modern Literature last week burgeoned forth, with a specialist on every branch and juicy speech-fruit for all the world to cull from the press. In Bowdoin's mellow Memorial Hall, the first to speak was Poet Robert Frost. He read Longfellow's Flight Into Egypt, dwelt a while on his own favorite theme...
...enemy (Germany); and on the north, Poland has an enemy (East Prussia, isolated German province). He pointed out that, from the last two places, Germany could launch an attack upon the Polish corridor (narrow strip of intervening territory leading to the sea), nip it off like a stalk of asparagus in the jaws of a crocodile...
...Asparagus in the jaws of a crocodile...
Potatoes, asparagus, spinach and peas, Tomatoes and cabbage, spaghetti and cheese...