Word: clams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Campbell's soup menu lists 21 genera, species and varieties of soup: asparagus, bean, beef, bouillon, celery, chicken, chicken gumbo, clam chowder, consomme, julienne, mock turtle, mulligatawny, mutton, oxtail, pea, pepper pot, printainer, tomato, tomato-okra, vegetable, vegetable-beef. Into the making of these mighty mixtures go okra and sweet pimentoes from the South; peas, corn, lima beans from New Jersey and Delaware; red-hearted Chatanay carrots, in summer from the Finger Lakes (N. Y.), in winter from Brownsville (Tex.); yellow turnips from Nova Scotia; head rice (hard enough to stand cooking) from Patna on the Ganges River; wild Irish...
...clam may not be 'up to snuff' in modern rhetoric; he may be slow, but he is safe and sure...
...California woman placed a basket of live clams in her cellar over night-next morning, every clam had caught a mouse...
...want oratory get a speaker; if you want action, get a clam...
...clam can talk and work at the same time. If the clams had spent the night in 'shelling out' open-mouthed oratory, they never would have caught the mice...