Word: cocoanuts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bombs, and the Kleig lights are lurking just around the corner. The sky has an odd opaque quality, unknown to this climate. The shallow waters shimmer with reflections from the clean sands below, and the proas of the natives sweep through the surf, like birds skimming the clouds. The cocoanut trees wave to and from against a high sky-line. No tricks, no artifice, no sham appears in "Moana", but only the peaceful glory of the South Seas...
...South Sea crabs which climb cocoanut trees at night, cut down the nuts with their shears and come down to eat the meat of the nuts which have burst in falling. The planters are compelled to protect their trees with collars of tin about six inches wide, on which the crabs cannot get a foothold...
William J. Bryan: "Arthur Brisbane, Hearst editor, visited me at my Palm Beach home. Later he wrote as follows: 'To W. R. Hearst and his other visitor Mr. Bryan gave one large cocoanut, much bigger than his head; one grapefruit, almost as 'big as his head, both from his own trees. He has seven kinds of fruit on the place, including oranges and lemons, also alligator pears and guava...
...large cocoanut"-much bigger than Mr. Bryan's head...
Even as when a cow eats a cocoanut or an elephant does a high dive, it is an event when a ball player writes a book. There are those, to be sure, who view with unworthy suspicion professional athletes in the world of literature. And it is even whispered that a certain prominent heavyweight and an equally prominent golf champion do not actually compose the treatises attributed to them in the public prints. But be these things as they very well may, Everett ("Deacon") Scott, of the New York Yankees, has entered the field of literature with a novel entitled...