Word: grows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hollywood legend has it that when Director Ernst Lubitsch went there he could think of no better use for the many drawers of his huge, flat-top desk than to grow mushrooms in them. So he interlarded bricks of mushroom spawn and fresh horse manure in the drawers, drew many an inquisitive sniff from visitors but never produced a mushroom...
...suburb) has three advantages-temperate climate, propinquity to a sophisticated market and to a big supply of horse manure. Just after the Revolution, when Philadelphia was the U. S. capital, local high livers discovered the mushrooms that had grown wild locally for years. Farmers thereupon tried to grow them artificially. Sometimes they got good crops, sometimes none. Then in 1904 Edward Henry Jacob, an accountant in a cream separator plant, began experimenting with mushrooms...
...Harvard turns to her incoming Freshmen, just as the Freshmen turn to her. For on their shoulders rests the future. But for the moment the prospect of four bright years ahead seems secure. And so engraved over one of the gates of the Yard is the inscription, "Enter to grow in wisdom...
...which three starving actors leap wolfishly upon a well-laden table, snap at everything in sight, including their own fingers. Thirty years ago U. S. audiences roared with delight at a similar scene, in which two hungry Negroes, yearning for a mythical farm where ham trees and biscuit bushes grow, come upon a picnic basket; one of them seizes a banana, peels it, stutteringly devours the skin. That was the sure-fire climax of The Ham Tree, one of the most famous musical shows that ever toured...
...Carnegie who was bald and Professor Wieland who (at 72) is not once played a joke of mistaken identity on the Carnegie barber who for weeks thereafter boasted that his massages and lotions had made hair grow again on the Carnegie pate...