Word: gorgonzola
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famed of all Goldbergiana are his lunatic inventions. These preposterous drawings were first inspired by memories of complicated scientific apparatus which Rube Goldberg, in his days as an engineering student at the University of California, was unable to take seriously. To demonstrate his mad machines, Goldberg invented Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts. Examples...
...system. Two days after the Cabinet meeting Italian motorists found that the price of gasoline had doubled to 87? per gal. Only cheerful sound from the Cabinet board was an announcement that "particularly abundant wheat and rice" crops ensure Italians plenty to eat this winter. Fearing possible blockades, Italian Gorgonzola shippers wired British customers last week to order all their supplies for the next few months in advance...