Word: fruit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This comedy seems deliberately intent on creating a malomorous reputation. It deals with the overpowering stench engendered by a rare and delicious fruit from China, which, when eaten (by two members of an English household)-permanently imbues them with the aura of a skunk. To inspire further jocularity, the men are compelled to wear diving suits to suppress the effluvia, while devoted friends visit them in gas masks. Eventually one of the men shoots himself, hounded to his grave by a smell...
...very prominent part in the whole transaction has been played by the United Fruit Co., whose prosperity in recent years has been great. The President of the company will be Minor C. Keith of United Fruit, while two of its directors will be A. W. Preston and B. W. Palmer, President and Secretary respectively of United Fruit...
...papers, the grade will be but an average of those to date. If it is one in which; through conviction or inclination, the instructor gives no tests additional to the mid-year and final examinations, hour examinations become necessary in order to produce what is required. And the fruit is generally as good as the plant. As a farmer might (but doesn't) put it: "Quickly sowed, quickly growed." It is in courses such as the latter that one hears the familiar apology: "I don't like to give you an hour examination, but the Office requires...
...GOOSE HANGS HIGH-The wild oats of the younger generation benignly turned into good fruit...
...with simple but concrete symbolism the very quality of wild oranges-bitter sweet to the first taste, growing more zestful with each bite, or closeup. Its story is that of a man embittered at fate by the sudden loss of his young bride, who hesitates to take the fruit of Eden offered to him in the person of a lonely girl of the Georgia coast, prisoner alike of fear and a maniacal murderer. The man who fears life's traps finally clutches at the fruit, rescuing the girl while she saves her own soul from the incubus of fear...