Word: fruit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gets all his exercise running after taxicabs. At mealtime he is apt to be found at the Blue Fox, a small French restaurant in an alley opposite the City Morgue. His idea of a good meal is an order of oysters washed down with champagne and followed by fruit for dessert...
...Gill Robb Wilson, former National Aeronautic Association president and onetime Lafayette Escadrille pilot, in his copyrighted New York Herald Tribune column this week: "An International Air Conference is due to open around Japanese cherry blossom time. The blossoms and the conference appear to have much in common-neither promises fruit, fragrance or future. Of course, we can go into the conference without a national policy, but we can also come out of it without either policy or pants...
...quints are identical; the rest are all types, ranging from blond to dark. Papa Diligenti calls them a "full house"-three queens, two jacks. They are healthy, normal children; they were bottle-raised in their own home, never saw a doctor. Their diet is sensible, plain, with plenty of fruit juices...
...Chairman of the Committee on Censorship of the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, I want to bring the following information to the attention of the Harvard community. As you know, Lillian Smith's novel "Strange Fruit" has been banned in Boston. In giving this book a leading review, the New York Times concluded...
Heat, Sin and Revival. Strange Fruit tells of Nonnie Anderson, a tall, slender, black-eyed, gentle Negro girl who has been in love with Tracy Deen, the son of Maxwell's doctor, since she was six years old. Now, when he is home from the war, with his college career broken off, with his father urging him to become a doctor and his mother after him to join the church, their love affair has grown into a deeper companionship. He also likes to talk to her. Strange Fruit begins (and reaches its most moving passages) with Nonnie...