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...only the certainty that Willie left his pickup outside his house when he went to bed, an omission that led him to his sorry state on the morrow, lying mangled on his back minus a leg and a hand, staring emptily upwards at an orange tree full of fruit turning gold...
...political scene is thickly populated by men who rose from one-mule farms, little houses beside the tracks, and fruit-and-vegetable markets along the main highways just outside of town. But few have struggled up to the political heights from a 190-ft. steam yacht, a 100-room house on a 20,000-acre estate, and a fortune of $100 million. New York's William Averell Harriman is one politician who has overcome such handicaps to become the most important governor in the U.S. and to be mentioned frequently, if not yet very ponderably, as a candidate...
...weren't introduced until the child was nearly a year old, and bananas were considered indigestible. [He] had to wait until he was twelve years old before he was allowed his first half banana, and he almost expected to fall dead at the first taste of the forbidden fruit...
...Bananas can be given when the baby is only two to four months old; they may be his first solid food and will certainly be his first raw fruit...
...their tough old hearts in wine and strong drink and indulge in an outbreak of grisly jollity." When a man died, in-laws and out, friends, neighbors and creditors descended on the sobbing widow, who was expected to welcome them with all kinds of vittles-beef, ham, turkeys, oysters, fruit, cheese and sweets-as well as gallons of the local mulekick. After the corpse had been volleyed to Kingdom Come by the customary funeral fusillade, there was bowsing and bundling sparking and frisking on the green And in addition to the hospitality, the bereaved family was expected to provide mementos...