Word: bananas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus is the tenderfoot regaled in lightly populated sections of the continent, where roam the sidehill gouger, the minktum, tigermonk, high-behind,* lava bear, hoop snake, jointed snake, Peruvian whiffen-whoofen, banana fish, mile-or-more bird and other creatures of times and times ago The fauna of folklore is too elusive for collectors but sometimes an unidentifiable species strays into the newspapers. Two summers ago northern New Jersey was terrorized by a "devil" which sounded, from the skimpy descriptions brought in by terrified natives, like a carnivorous cousin of the cougar and the kangaroo. Last week...
...spring fashion shows in Paris, females were shown what to wear: evening gowns that came up to the neck in front and down to the waist* in back; sport sweaters used as jumpers; belts on jackets, ensemble coats and separate coats; colors of red banana, vert d'eau (light green), cochineal, silver grey, violine (light purplish blue...
...Banana Comedy", as is well known and therefore bears repeating, is a comedy about bananas. With the singular grace peculiarly his own, Mr. Soldhis has contrived from the fruitful exploits of Joe Banana a long, unwieldy and often humorous farce in five acts and a pair of warm winter woolens...
...well Miss Fyre from the School of Dramatics While you Wait read her correspondence. To say that these schools like the great Sears. Roebuck cannot breen genius is to verge on the truth. And imagine verging on the truth. In fact imagine verging anyway. Miss Fvre sees Etta Banana's tragedy and shuts her eyes. I remembered, as I saw her, that famous evening when the great and only Eddie Foy, his family and I filled the old Madison Square Garden watching Duse play little Eva in "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Miss Frye has the same elan, the some esprit...
...chorus really do shine. In that famous scene once used by Ed Wynne where Etta Banana and Joe Banana split, each to go his way down the slippery path of life, the tragedy would be altogether too near the heart of the city to be called a suburb, were if not for the fact that this hand picked chorus from the far side of the Sahara proved conclusively that when art reaches pedal extremities it is not footless. In fact one would do well to spend an evening, two dollars and a half, and three quarters of a tumbler full...