Word: fruit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...previous three: Lillian Smith's Strange Fruit, Kathleen Winsor's Forever Amber, Joseph S. Pennell's The History of Rome Hanks...
...made her creator the most influential illustrator of his day. He once explained how it happened: "I was young and healthy, and the one thing that's worth drawing when you're young and healthy is a woman. You can't spend all day with fruit and flowers...
This week Meteorologist Young begins his fifth season of frost-forecasting. Nightly, he gives the temperature lows expected, and forecasts the time of their arrival in farm communities. The fruit farmers all listen. If he announces, "Cucamonga, 31°, 5 a.m.," Cucamonga's farmers set their alarms accordingly, light their smudge pots and save their trees. Broadcaster Young has also acquired a large following among women: if his news is bad and smudges are indicated, they bring in the wash...
...With no more paper available for Lillian Smith's Strange Fruit (500,000 copies), Reynal & Hitchcock are now issuing red and green certificates, at $2.75 each, entitling the holder to a copy early in 1945. In the first three weeks, bookstores ordered 6,000 certificates...
They traveled through a country of night hawks, deer, bears, panthers, wildcats, and hunted turkeys by moonlight. At St. Louis they drove across the prairie through flowering and fragrant shrubs, past orchards bending and breaking with loads of fruit, where boys rode by on calico ponies "hallowing & laughing." Around the houses were "fat Negro wenches, drying apples & peaches on boards under trees," and in the villages were strapping Indian squaws from the tribes famed for the beauty of their women. Irving thought the Indians were like strange, wild, magnificent prairie birds. They rode by in scarlet turbans with plumes...