Word: donut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Humane Sunday. As a guide for advertising men, the Department of Commerce issued a pamphlet on "Special Days, Weeks and Months in 1948." The list of 247 "official" occasions includes Large 1 Size Week, National Donut Week, Honey for Breakfast Week, Perfect Shipping Month, Humane Sunday, Iced Tea Week, Sweetest Day. The pamphlet also includes eight "additional possible events," such as National Be Kind to Taxpayers Week and Better Floors Week...
...Dudley-Winthrop game assumed rout proportions as Dave "Bongo" Bishop and "Donut" Duncan each contributed two touchdowns. Another by Osepchuck, a safety, and three conversions completed the scoring...
...fifteen-yard run to paydirt by quarterback Dave Bishop of the Commuters clinched a win for them over the Funsters. Earlier scores had been registered by the losers and by left half "Donut" Duncan of Dudley. The winners converted after both scores, once on a plunge by Bishop and once on a Bishop-to-Marshall pass...
Last week Doughnut Corp. launched Donut Week with sillier shenanigans than ever. Radiozany Gracie Allen pushed a button setting off doughnut machines all over the country. While Manhattan paid its respects to the usual "Donut Queen," Camden, Maine honored the late Captain Hanson Crockett Gregory, alleged inventor of the doughnut's hole,* planned to erect a statue to him. Placing its Joe Cook dunker on view in its Times Square Mayflower Doughnut Shop, Doughnut Corp...