Word: fruit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Palace Hotel would have fresh California fruit in its rooms each day; the Mark Hopkins sternly warned its bellhops not to raise an eyebrow at foreign customs. It also cautioned them that some guests might not even tip them...
...Line. In Canton, N.Y., bumblebees came out before the blossoms because of the spring heat, buzz-boomed after shoppers who were carrying home fruit and vegetables...
...with her widowed mother. In the nation's capital last week Mrs. Truman did the housework in her sunny, five-room apartment, as she had done it back home. Every morning she got up at a little before 7 to get the Vice President's breakfast-always fruit, milk and toast. She had given up trying to find a maid. Almost every evening she cooked supper, sometimes sighing a little over the dearth of beefsteak, her husband's favorite dish. She does not smoke; her husband does not approve of women with cigarets...
Andrew Green was one of Santayana's students. He went into business in Chicago to make money quickly, made it, retired, went to China, hired a junk and sailed leisurely up & down the great rivers. Eventually he settled in the British West Indies as a fruit grower, and married a slight, wise, well-read Negro girl...
Silently the opium gatherers moved among the flowers, sometimes hidden from sight among the rows of corn. With knives and razors they slashed a "V" in the egg-shaped fruit over the big poppy petals, tapped out drops of white slime into tin cans and paper sacks. If they could slip past the soldiers, they could sell the stiffened slime, crude opium gum, to gun-toting dealers. The rewards were great; and it was certainly easier than raising tomatoes, which spoiled on the burros' backs on the long trails to market...