Word: grapefruit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...field's end; The crowd cries in wonder. Col. Lindbergh has brought his plane down on a field where none thought he could dare to land. The first land plane in history has settled on the soil of British Honduras. He lunches with Governor John Burdon, eating Honduran grapefruit. Public holiday is declared. Col. Lindbergh tinkers anxiously over a broken air pipe, minor mid-air accident to the hitherto uncannily flawless mechanism of The Spirit...
...cotton episode was accompanied by, or perhaps it caused a rumor that Secretary Jardine would soon resign to accept a high-salaried position as "tsar" of the orange-lemon-grapefruit industry in Flori...
Coolidge. At No. 15 Dupont Circle, President Coolidge, Republican National Committee Chairman William M. Butler, and ten potent Republicans* breakfasted on grapefruit, bacon, eggs, sausage, hot cakes. They then listened to Chairman Butler's report on his just completed Western tour...
...made certain of both the iron and the vitamin E in the foods he gave 30 of his anemic patients. All improved; none had relapses in two years. "The foods of greatest value in this new treatment," he reported "are butter, milk, cream, egg yolks, tomatoes, spinach, lettuce, oranges, grapefruit and pineapples. Of meats the edible viscera, which are commonly eaten only rarely, are of the greatest value; liver, lungs, sweetbreads, kidneys, beef heart and brain...
...gimcrack customs, all echoing to the tinkle of bicycle bells and chandeliers, is truly remarkable. In fact, it is so remarkable that the exhibitors' enthusiasm made them somewhat forget their narrative obligations. The ingenuous characters are gently regarded as being almost as odd today as were (allegedly) grapefruit and golf to oldtime Chicago...