Word: gourd
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Some 10,000 other lowans flocked to the trim Quaker town to honor its only famous son. Hoover dutifully examined the two-room frame cottage where he was born, nodded as the old wooden cradle was pointed out to him, took a drink from a gourd at the wooden pump out back. Did it all look familiar? Hoover smiled, explained candidly: "I left this home when I was four years old and moved to a house across the street. I don't remember anything about this house...
...Hollywood, Producer Sam Goldwyn got good news: the U.S. Treasury reported that he had overpaid his 1945 income tax by $383,4071n Manhattan, gourd-shaped John Jacob Astor, 35, well-known for his ancestors, lay abed with cracked vertebrae, after skidding on a polished floor and bumping downstairs...
...nations (and Canada if it liked) would bind themselves to resist attack against any one of them, whether by an outside country or by a member republic. Again & again the Argentines had given in on committee disputes. Sharp, thin Foreign Minister Juan A. Bramuglia, sipping maté from a gourd in his Suite 400, had reined in his delegates. His orders flashed by day and by night. An Argentine delegate skidding down the fourth-floor corridor in his shorts to respond to a late-night summons nearly bowled over a startled female. "That's being descamisado with a vengeance...
...have a few draps?' He blowed an awful sigh, and says he, 'This is a wicked and a perverse generation of vipers, young man.' [But] that shovel-shaped underlip of his jist fell outwards like the fallin door of a coal stove, and he upsot the gourd inside of his teeth. I seed the mark of the truck agoing down his throat jist like a snake travelin through a wet sausage gut. He smelt into the gourd a good long smell, turned up his eyes, and said, 'Barm of life...
...Coogie," born in Barcelona, plays Cuban rhythms watered-down and violin-perfumed, but with enough gourd rattling to make them sound authentic. For this the Cuban Government regards him as an ambassador of culture-with the title of Commander in the Order of Honor and Merit of the Cuban Red Cross...