Word: grower
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...when their forecastings were made public at the commencement dance in the high-school gym, was that she would win the prize at the State fair for the biggest pumpkin. They did not mean to be unkind, but Wanda went home crying. She wanted no fame as a pumpkin grower, dreamed of singing opera...
...cross between Richard Barthelmess and George Raft, in the coffee shop of the Kansas City Airport. When a female passenger said audibly: "That's a dish!" Producer Schulberg offered him a job. Trent's real name is Laverne Browne. Son of an Orange County, Calif, orange grower, he took up aviation while at college, barnstormed through Virginia, got a pilot's license, spent one year on TWA's New York-to-Kansas City run, year-and-a-half on the Kansas City-to-Los Angeles. He has flown 600,000 miles without an accident, still...
...Told a leek grower, "You can arrange to send some of those leeks to London for me. I am fond of leeks...
...railroad track, that his vehicle was about to be struck by an oncoming train. At that critical juncture in his dream a fast freight actually roared by along a track near the warehouse, with a jangle of bell and blast of whistle. Not waiting to open the door, Tobacco Grower Hawkins hastily dived through a glass window of his truck, bumped to the floor, sustained severe bruises and lacerations. A local physician dressed his many wounds...
...rescinded, Yale's press agent (Eddie Nugent) pounds out enthusiastic copy. Texas Coach Slug Winters (Jack Haley) is enthusiastic, too, until his tough wife Bessie (Patsy Kelly) fractures his star passer's leg. In time's nick Slug fills the gap with a barefoot Texas melon-grower named Amos (Stuart Erwin) who can toss a cantaloupe incredible distances, learns to do even better with a football. Despite the intervention of a blizzard, the charms of Arline Judge and a good deal of assorted harmonizing, Amos wins the Yale game by taking off his shoes and stockings...