Word: fig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Corradi doesn't despise the company of poor peasants. In fact, he is always around. I planted a fig tree here one day. I have held this land for 15 years, and never a tree on it. I want a tree. But Corradi rushed up shouting, 'Who planted this fig tree?' He made me cut it down...
...Whims & Fig Leaves. This has been achieved in spite of rather than because of the industry, which is skittery and as subject to sudden sinking spells as any industry that lives to satisfy woman's whim. Its 11,000 employers are mostly small businessmen who must move rapidly and warily in a trade that is bitterly competitive, determinedly rapacious. A man with a design idea and a batch of orders can have a Cadillac and an establishment on Riverside Drive in six months. Then, like a gust of wind in a wheat field, women's minds change...
Finally, this spring, Fredericks was ready with a one-twelfth scale model of his design: the nude figure of a young man, with one arm stretched upward. Seltzer, who keeps the Scripps-Howard Press a proper "family newspaper," was not perturbed at the statue's absence of fig leaf, and the Fine Arts Committee of the City Planning Commission liked the model. When the Press ran a "progress report" on the memorial, with a front-view photograph of the Fredericks model, only two readers felt strongly enough to write protests...
Avant garde bopper Parker, as any but the moldiest fig knows, earned his frenetic niche in bopdom by his puffing on the alto...
Switzerland's studious, bespectacled Hazy Osterwald led a "moldy fig" (bop-eese for Dixieland) combo into town, proclaiming that his life was devoted "to imposing good music on the Swiss dance hall." He got more sympathy than applause. But French Clarinetist Claude Luter, who learned his style from old King Oliver records, got his usual stamping raves. And when Gösta Törner's All-Star...