Word: fruit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Newspapers, like everything else, have their forms, their customs, their etiquette. One rule of journalistic etiquette is not to subject readers to free advertising. If President Coolidge ate canned peaches at the White House table, the brand of fruit could not be mentioned. If Judge Landis gave a perfecto to George V., the cigar's name would be lost to posterity. Hotels are one of the few classes of business permissible of casual mention...
...About a year ago my little orchestra was playing at a Long Island hotel. To and from the hotel I was wont to stop at a little fruit stand owned by a Greek, who began every sentence with ' Yess.' The jingle of his idiom haunted me and my friend Cohn. Finally I wrote this verse and Cohn fitted it with a tune...
...friend of mine, Jas. Mulvey, a politician of San Francisco, cracked it while I was there on a visit in 1919. An Italian fruit man with a stand near the corner of Jim's house used to keep his bananas inside, while on the sidewalk he kept apples, peaches, plums, etc. The kids, getting wise, used to buy bananas and while he went inside to get said fruit they'd cop an apple, peach or whatever they fancied...
...following estimates of books much in the public eye were made after careful consideration of the trend of critical opinion: THE MAN WHO ATE THE POPOMACK-W. J. Turner-Brentanos ($1.50). The popomack is a fruit- the rarest and most delicious fruit known to mankind. It had only one drawback-its unpardonable smell- and the fact that that smell transferred itself to anyone who ate the fruit. Lord Revoir ate of the popomack. What happened to him then is the theme of this extraordinary allegorical play by a young British poet. Two of the scenes exist only in the minds...
...beetle with a hard shell is destroying fruit and even attacking chickens, according to reports from Wheeling...