Word: honeydew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aged (81), eccentric New York Lawyer Samuel Untermyer had the gardener on his Yonkers estate rig up an ingenious apparatus to infuse his honeydew and casaba melons with benedictine, port, and brandy while they are still on the hot-house vine, hopes to sample the non-intoxicating but liquor-flavored fruit next month...
...insists that she go to Paris instead. Up from the pampas come Emissary James Guthrie (Melvyn Douglas) and his stooge, "Pancho" Brown (Stuart Erwin), who lay siege to Elsa with flowers, gifts, attentions. When Elsa discovers what seems to be a ring of cold business in Guthrie's honeydew phrases. the plot bears to the left, but the clairvoyant audience knows it will come right again...
Notable produce to go forth from this great valley: honeydew melons...
...married-to a handsome ticket seller named Hopper, from whom she was later separated -and to become a celebrated comedienne. She had played with Lillian Russell in Giroflé Girofla, with Joe Weber in Higgledy-Piggeldy, with Sam Bernard in a burlesque of Romeo & Juliet, distinguished herself as Flo Honeydew in The Lady Slavey. After an unsuccessful engagement in London, she discovered a one-cylinder farce called Tillie's Night mare, played it in Manhattan for two years and on the road for three. It was in this that she sang "Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl...
...Honeydew melons get all balled up and think they're marbles after coming in contact with our fruit and potato bailer. Butter likewise...