Word: bananas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kissed orange, the vitaminous banana and the MacIntosh apple all have high nutritive value which would be very good for general health, particularly as the hot weather has arrived. Viewed from this angle it would seem that a very healthy tendency to consume more fruit is being officially discouraged. However, forbidden fruit somehow or other has a sweeter taste, unless some misguided individual has the bad luck to pocket a lemon, in which case his sly smile will rapidly turn to a pucker...
...stands for horsepower. Chavez tried therein to contrast the luxurious, banana-laden tropics with the hard commercialism of the North and to show how each needs the other. When Stokowski gave the ballet its world premiere in Philadelphia five years ago (TIME, April 11, 1932), he had dancers to take such roles as a coconut, a mermaid with a guitar, a swordfish, a gasoline pump, a ventilator. Last week's audience had no dancers to explain what was happening or to whom it was happening. They heard only music to express life aboard ship, a hot-blooded tango where...
...banana knockers' in Eua, Nukualofa, Tonga Islands, only one is a Harvard 1912 man." Some 1912 luminaries who failed a Benchley citation: onetime Securities & Exchange Commissioner Joseph Patrick Kennedy, New York's former Republican State Chairman William Kingsland Macy, Massachusetts' Representative Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth, Author Frederick Lewis Allen (Only Yesterday), New York University's Richard Offner, expert on Florentine Art, Japan's steamship tycoon Ryozo Asano, the New York Times's Science News Editor William L. ("Bill") Laurence...
...majority of these laws appear on inspection to be rather old. For instance, the banana skin rule was last amended in 1902; it reads, "No person shall throw or place upon any sidewalk or cross-walk any banana skin, orange peel, or slippery substance...
...International Railways last week proposed to its stockholders an agreement with United Fruit. By its terms the Fruit Co. would "protect" International Railways against the construction of a new port either on the Atlantic or Pacific for 20 years. It would also provide additional facilities for the long banana haul across Guatemala by buying ten new locomotives and 300 banana cars according to the railroad's specifications. It would, furthermore, guarantee the railroad favorable terms on road ballast from mines in its control. Finally, it would pay International Railways $2,165,000 in cash, receiving in return 20-year...