Word: fruit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Says a Cambridge adage: "Banned in Boston is the trademark of a good book." Last fortnight Strange Fruit (TIME, March 20), Lillian Smith's controversial novel about Southern racial problems, miscegenation and lynching, joined the long list of Boston's hall-marked books.* A policeman had read some of it and was shocked. "The boldest indecent passages I have ever seen," said Boston's Police Commissioner Thomas F. Sullivan. The disturbing passages, he explained, were shown him by a father who had bought Strange Fruit as a present for his daughter in the WAVES. Said...
Professor F.O. Matthlessen's month-long search for a test case on the unofficial banning of the book "Strange Fruit" was climaxed Tuesday when Cambridge police confiscated a copy of the novel sold by Abraham Isenstadt of the University Law Book Exchange to Bernard De Voto, prominent American author...
...work in the fields or about the monastery. Then there is another monastic office. Dinner is at 11:30. From 12 to 1:30 there is another study period, followed by two more hours of labor. Vespers comes at 4:30, and at 5:30 a meal of bread, fruit and soybean coffee...
...menu included: fruit cocktail (Texas grapefruit, Brazilian pineapple, Guatemalan bananas, Mexican papaya) ; vegetable plate (Guatemala chayote, Pennsylvania mushrooms, California asparagus, Texas broccoli, Louisiana sweet potatoes, Florida tomatoes); salad (artichoke stuffed with avocado, South American water chestnuts, water-lily roots, papaya); mousse Tropicana (a scooped-out Temple orange, frozen solid, filled with ice cream, chopped figs, dates, California walnuts and Brazilian nuts); pia-pie Brazil (sponge cake and fresh pineapple...
...fiber tokens, which are good for an indefinite period, are going into hiding. Householders collect the chips in old fruit jars, to avoid losing unused points when stamps expire, or having to stand in line cashing stamps on the last...