Word: fruited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...confused with the Georgia author of Strange Fruit...
...greats of yesterday and the day before are still going strong. Among them: buxom Mildred (Rockin' Chair) Bailey, the best "white gal" blues singer of her time; contralto Connee Boswell; satin-voiced Maxine Sullivan; and the unhappy queen of the 52nd Street honky tonks, Billie (Strange Fruit) Holiday. Most of them have been around long enough to see several debutante classes come...
...they been more single-minded in their effort to help the food saving plan would be the devious execution of the program by University officials closely connected with the dining halls. Showing no conception of the spirit of the campaign, they have included more costly, and sometimes superfluous fruit to substitute for salad at dessertless meals, and have absurdly insisted on offering margarine and jam when there is no bread. In contrast, higher administrative officials for the most part have cooperated to the fullest and have turned over to the Food Relief Committee the $2400 estimated in advance...
...fruit trees: Don't use. Because DDT is a cumulative poison and apparently injures some plants, it is unsafe to use on most fruits and vegetables until further tests have been made...
Temple Paradise. In Guatemala last week, an expedition financed by the United Fruit Co. was restoring the Mayan city of Zaculeu, near Huehuetenango. Zaculeu's spectacular pyramid temple is surrounded by a diggers' paradise of lesser temples and altars. (Near by is a court for the breakneck religious ball game which Central Americans believe to be the ancestor of basket ball.) Guatemala is dotted with dead stone cities, and United Fruit has promised a five-year program to put them back in shape...