Word: doughnut
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University of Vermont and Brown University have been see-sawing in the doughnut championship race for the last fortnight. Latest reports have Freshman Steele of Vermont slaloming through twenty doughnuts in twelve minutes and thirty-eight seconds. Before that the record was held by Mr. Howe, 1938 of Brown and Mr. Pillsbury of Vermont with marks of eighteen minutes fifty seconds and twenty-nine minutes respectively...
Charlie Chan in Paris (Fox). "Perfect case like perfect doughnut-has hole." With this convenient hypothesis to work from, it is no trouble at all for famed Detective Charlie Chan (Warner Oland) to find out who threw a knife at a dancer named Nardi, who killed an unscrupulous bank "cashier, what connection both have with the forged bonds and the man who walks with a crutch. Abetted by his grinning son Lee Chan, he chivalrously establishes the innocence of pretty Yvette Lamartine, dispenses telegraphic proverbs for the benefit of a stupid confrere...
...wife Anna went to Germany to visit her family and his. With other young, gregarious and jolly Germans from uptown Yorkville and The Bronx, Hauptmann found his way to Hunter Island on Long Island Sound. Among his friends were John Braue, now a counterman at the Radio City Doughnut Shop, and Anita Lutzenberg, a dressfitter for Oppenheim, Collins & Co. "Nita," explained Braue, "liked to jump around and go with this man or that on the beach." It was not long before she was jumping around with "Dick" Hauptmann. And "Nita" Lutzenberg did not like conventional photographs iked to do things...
What's the matter with the advertising manager of Socony, and also what's the matter with your advertising manager . . . who should know from frequent trips to New England . . . the difference between a doughnut and a cruller. Don't you all know that doughnuts do not have holes...
Against Reader Riley's undocumented challenge, TIME pits the word of Uneeda Bakers, Ward Baking Co., Cushman Bakers, Doughnut Machine Corp. and the Salvation Army that doughnuts have holes. Doughnuts made by Ward for the New England trade have smaller holes, but distinctly holes. In some communities, e.g. Cleveland, cakes-with-hole may be called either doughnuts or crullers. Practically everywhere the twisted, sausage-like cake is called a cruller, is never called a doughnut...