Word: grapefruit
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...stage hardly shone in unrivalled brilliance. But Rudy did have a very excellent mimie with him, who stole the show, and must have exasperated his master by his innumerable encores and curtain calls. The luke-warm so-whatness of it all cheered the chippies in the third gallery; all grapefruit aside, the lay of last minstrel was more salivary than sexy...
...Dominic Mintola of Toms River, N. J. spent 68? to mail to President Roosevelt a 36-lb. log given him by the local relief agency. Dolee Mintola complained that the wood was swamp gum, "tough as rubber under the ax, exuded more moisture than a water-soaked grapefruit rind" and the pieces were too large for his stove...
...have smoking banned in New York City subways. No one had forgotten his subsequent practice of arresting subway smokers on the spot, or the occasion when he struck a cigaret from the lips of a fellow-passenger in a Pullman washroom. When the 40 had drained their glasses of grapefruit juice, up rose Mrs. Audrey Fiedler to tell how Dr. Pease adopted her four years ago, saved her from eight drug-dosing physicians...
...grapes that flourish in Moscow and the Ural uplands. Undoubtedly he has produced fruits that yield more abundantly, stand shipment better and grow farther north than the older varieties. To bring out ever new mutations, he shocks with electricity the seeds of apples, watermelons, almonds, squash, plums. Oranges and grapefruit developed by him are grown in the "Soviet Florida" on the Black Sea. Tireless in his old age, he works now on tobacco to be grown on the lower Volga...
...bell rang. Between two spheres the size of grapefruit leaped an electric flash. The gap was only six inches, but the flash was blinding, the report thunderous. The voltage was not extraordinary (150,000), but the amperage was?250,000. The current used by a 40-watt incandescent bulb is about one-third of an ampere. Two hundred fifty thousand amperes is a greater current than man has ever produced, a greater current than natural lightning...