Word: fruited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There, in the hardest job of his life, Father Franks lives close to his work. The day begins at 7:15 when the Franks children (Caroline, 10, and Allison, 4) rouse their parents. Breakfast is in a small room off Lady Franks's bedroom (just fruit juice and coffee for Sir Oliver, who has to watch his weight; once when he was laid up with a broken...
Another quaint outlet for the Stanford spirit is the pajamarino. The freshmen men annually put on pajamas for the rally before the game with Southern California. The festivities begin with the freshmen parading down fraternity row. The frat men line up on both sides of the street with stale fruit and water hoses. Freshmen survivors of this-proceed to the basketball court where they become the feature attraction of the rally. Then they march over to Roble Hall to serenade the freshmen women. This serenade usually turns into an attempt to storm the sacred Roble Halls. Up fire escapes...
Hostess No. 1 was Mrs. Elizabeth LaPointe, a 56-year-old grandmother and telephone operator. The man who came to dinner sampled her fruit compote, eggs soaked in pickled beet juice, Norwegian meat sticks, Norwegian coffee, snowball cookies and cinnamon rolls. Only one course was a casualty; Mrs. LaPointe had let the lemon fluff collapse. Coates pronounced the LaPointe dinner "delicious...
...popular, "common sense" notion that well-fed people are most likely to keep healthy is not necessarily true. Recent research shows that the common diseases of childhood are no more prevalent among poorly fed children than among children stuffed with spinach, fruit and fish-oil vitamins. Research also shows that well-fed adults suffer as much as anyone else from the common cold and influenza...
...Lemonade Opera (TIME, Sept. 8, 1947 et seq.) gave Felix Mendelssohn's 120-year-old Die Heimkehr aus der Fremde (The Return from Abroad) a U.S. performance-but made no great impression with it. In fact, after three years of applauding the Lemonaders' fine selection of strange fruit, most listeners found Die Heimkehr (now titled The Stranger) a sorry piece of citrus indeed...