Word: banana
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...future but because of some accident of immediate overwhelming interest which appeals to the feelings and distorts the judgment. ... We must read the words before us as if the question were whether two small exporting grocers shall go to jail." Cried Roosevelt: "I could carve out of a banana a judge with more backbone than that...
...always had the born trouper's instinct for the big way. At her Metropolitan debut the wings were crowded with newsreel cameramen, and Beatrice Lillie and Miriam Hopkins threw violets from the boxes. When a short time afterward, Hollywood beckoned, Grace hired a Pullman, garnished with orchids and banana trees, and went in state. She may not have become the world's greatest soprano, but nobody could accuse her of not acting the part...
...records at the Coliseum to the tune of ?9,000 a week. Its animal is a stuffed terrier, that, like the rubber plant in Hellzapoppin, grows bigger each time it puts in an appearance. Its topical song-which the audience joins in on-runs: "When shall I see a banana again, tell me, mother...
Jackson: "By the end of the year it will grow into a banana...
Noumea, the capital, was rundown, poverty-stricken. The banana-shaped, 250-mile-long island, defended by an ill-armed garrison and ancient cannon, would have dropped like a ripe banana into the hands of the Japs. So the French welcomed U.S. forces, at first. But U.S. forces soon outnumbered the colonists and, with the vanishing of a Jap invasion threat, irritations between the two populations cropped...