Word: coconut
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...North & South. Sailors on a southbound cargo ship jumped about in brisk, energetic fashion until plump sirens with fishlike feet got aboard, started playing guitars and wriggling their hips. Officers forgot to give orders then, left the bridge. In a tropical port even the luxuriant, overgrown pineapples and coconut trees abandoned themselves to jogging amiably about. But back north again the dancing took on new, hectic energy. Drably uniformed workmen hopped about automatically, rebelliously, before a stock ticker largely labeled. A gasoline filling station, two bathtubs and a ventilator took part in this materialistic orgy. For the finale a bland...
...fish pond answers readily to the name Bill Taft. Our favorite pet however, was a large flying fish christened Gloria Swanson. Her diet was difficult, but this was offset by a most affectionate disposition. Gloria visited the house frequently, flying from her pond through a patch of bamboo, between coconut trees, entering open windows and doors, frequently alighting at the canary's cage, exchanging chirps with the imprisoned singer. Gloria's death was a natural one. She "caught cold" while moulting and all efforts to rescue her from double pneumonia were vain. Bill Taft was chief mourner...
...guests will be the three leading actresses in "The Little Racketeer," Queenie Smith, Grace Hayes, and Cherrie Dale, Continuous music will be furnished by Duke Ellington and his orchestra, will be spelled by Roy Lamson's Harvardians, while a complete floor show will be staged by Coconut Grove actors...
...began to complain that duty-free Filipino cane sugar was depressing their industry. Louisiana cane-growers felt the same way. Concerns with $800,000,000 invested in Cuban sugar production lined up with them against the Philippines. From the North-west came the cry of dairymen that Filipino coconut oil was competing unfairly with their farm products. From the South cottonseed oil men joined the chorus of complaint. This outcry against the Philippines as an agricultural competitor was centred on Congress. There the representatives of the different groups coalesced, formed a sizeable bloc in favor of casting the Philippines loose...
...Coconuts, another great Ceylon industry in the doldrums-chief reason seems to be slaughter of whales. One correspondent in Daily News hysterically asks if anybody knows how long the whale supply of the world will hold out under present slaughter rate-if supply seems able to continue indefinitely will not someone please page immediately the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and see if whaling cannot be stopped or impeded? However Ceylon's only hope, coconutwise, seems to be for the civilized world to decide that they prefer, much prefer vegetable fat such as coconut as the base...