Word: bananas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that is not all. The pines of Summerville, crape jasmine and myrtle, wisteria and roses, boxwood, live oaks and Spanish moss, palmetto, banana, poinsettias and oleander-only parts of Florida, not California, can compare. Even the low black swamps have a rare appeal. Cypress with spreading trunks and entangling roots...
...BUMMEL is what Germans call al fresco funmaking. Below, with a half-consumed banana in his mouth, is Bruno Hauptmann, with some Hunter Island friends on a bummel. None of his circle was handier at collecting bits of driftwood, none could roast sausage nearer to a turn, none could play the mandolin or sing with greater virtuosity. An Irish park guard recalled that he was also a great horseshoe pitcher. Hauptmann, the Outdoor Man, was a good hand at inshore sailing. He owned a canoe which he kept at nearby City Island . Another boatsman of the vicinity was Dr. John...
...picturesque white stucco houses surrounded with jasmine and banana plants lived a prosperous population of 25,000 people. During the Spanish-American War, volunteers in blue and khaki slapPed mosquitoes, trained impatiently at Fort Taylor. During the World War, Key West again gained military prominence when a $2,500,000 submarine base was begun there. It was never commissioned, and not long after, Key West began to slip...
...Vera Cruz last month a circus elephant to which French Consul Marcel Bourguin was feeding bananas suddenly knocked him down, stepped on him, tossed him across the tent (TIME, April 23). Last week in Toluca when one Miguel Solorzano fed the creature banana peels the same elephant trampled him to death...
...Banana-shaped Crete, in the centre, belongs to Greece. There in prehistoric times lived the Minotaur and there men fashioned golden goblets of great beauty and invented the water closet. On Crete at present is the summer home and strategic retreat of Eleutherios Venizelos, sly Grand Old Man of Greek politics...