Word: bananas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Orleans, La., Sidney Magnon, 53, banana trimmer, bet Walter Massarini $25 he could stay under water for 25 minutes, won. The $25 went to the relict and four children of Sidney Magnon...
...they may fail to surprise him they may nonetheless scare him almost out of his wits. He is dismayed when a child is born with teeth, or cuts its upper teeth first, and usually does away with it. The birth of twins is an omen of disaster. If a banana tree sprouts fruit not at the end of the stalk but near the middle, the plant is promptly cut down and the owner is considered in peril of death. If a dog is remarkably lucky at hunting, it is thought to be catching game to be served at its owner...
...Monte Carlo. Mrs. A. M. Sherwood, 65, of Los Angeles, Calif., had a hunch when she saw that her waiter's number was 13, scuttled for the Casino to play No. 13, slipped on a banana peel, broke her leg in two places...
...from $90 per share to $75 in one day shortly after the company reported profits for the June quarter (before taxes) down from $4,700,000 in 1934 to $2,300,000 this year. Official explanation for the 50% decline in earnings was a cut in French and German banana quotas. Another reason was supposed to be appropriation of heavy reserves against possible losses on foreign accounts, principally German...
...abroad. Last week 86 privileged Nazi tourists arrived in Manhattan aboard the S. S. Stuttgart with spending money of $20 each, supposed to last five days. Said sturdy Franz Luppe, superintendent of a Dessau brewery, "Some of my countrymen are foolish enough to waste their money on banana splits...