Word: bananas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Banana, raw .... 4¼ Eggs...
...Montgomery, Ala., stopped by Patrolman William Collins for speeding his banana truck and for reckless driving, Truckdriver R. L. Hathaway gave as his excuse that he had a tarantula in his pants. The policeman slit open the trousers of R. L. Hathaway, flicked out the tarantula, blackjacked...
...acting last night was hampered by the usual distractions of a dress rehearsal, but Miss Clara Butler, playing the lead, gave a more than creditable performance. At home in a lightly dashing role, she carefully ignored for the most part the flickering lights, the misplaced props and the banana, which took the place of a meal...
...presentation of the feature, "Devil Dogs of the Air," the Hon. Jimmy Cagney and Mr. Pat O'Brien, supported by Margaret Lindsay and Frank McHugh, go together as smoothly as a hand and its glove, and as entertainingly as a fat man on a banana peel; while Polly Moran, in person, scintillatingly fresh from Hollywood, shouts and jests her merry way from behind the spotlights right into the very hair of her listeners...
...State's eight experts, Mr. Trendley declared positively that Hauptmann did not write the notes. On crossexamination, Expert Trendley admitted that his "400 cases" included a number of "curbstone opinions" which he had later reversed. It was revealed later that his vocation between trials was icing banana cars in East St. Louis railroad yards...