Word: bananas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Included in the program is a Chinese fairy tale in which a willow tree goes out of its way to help a princess in distress. The tree bears one banana to appease the wrath of an angry mandarin, and die immediately after accomplishing its errand of mercy...
...snippy opinion that it was "distinctly of the old school." On reading this, Mr. Smith saw red, turned radical with a vengeance. He daubed upon a canvas the weirdest monstrosity conceivable to his infuriated imagination. It showed a crazily proportioned South Sea Island female, mouth crammed to oozing with banana, holding aloft a half-devoured piece of the fruit. In the background gaped a skull. Having splotched every color on the palette over his flamboyant picture, he entitled it, "Yes We Have No Bananas," stuck it in front of his fireplace. "That," said Novelist Smith, with...
...Brooklyn, Ruth Galfas, 14 months old, caught a greedy chunk of banana in her windpipe; her father Hyman, frantic, ran with her to a drug store, was intercepted by Patrolman Francis Ryan. Patrolman Ryan, calm, dislodged the banana lump; the baby seemed dead. Patrolman Ryan, resourceful, put a handkerchief over her mouth and breathed down her throat for 20 minutes. She revived...
...breakfast time, peel a banana. Lay it on a plate of ample size and ladle over it thick orange marmalade. Eat with a spoon, munching at the same time hot, buttered toast. Sip coffee...
...Manhattan, Plasterers Paul Biejan and Seamons Fogler were seriously injured last week when a workman on a building under construction on 28th street, dropped near them a bottle of banana oil, which exploded...