Word: leafed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ancient, arched glass showcases and shelves provided hominy grits, black-eyed peas, meats, light bulbs, soft drinks, laundry soap, fruit-jar caps, boxes of W. E. Garrett & Sons Sweet Mild Snuff, Ramon's Pink Pills, leaf twist tobacco, spools of J. & P. Coats thread and a hundred other items. As America's citizens gossiped around the four-foot, coal-fired iron stove, the talk was full of Christmas doings...
...pleasant fact that the University plans all meals two weeks in advance, down to the very last cabbage leaf. So why don't the dining halls list the breakfast menu along with the lunch and dinner of the day before, and post both outside the dining hall? With the menu outside, undergraduates heading for bed at outrageous hours may make a reasoned decision and be sure whether or not they want to rise for breakfast...
...facts. One month age, a "workman" started cutting the grass in the Eliot House courtyard at 8:15 a.m. setting up such a cacophony with his electric mower that further sleep was impossible. One week later at the very same hour, he was back with an electric leaf raker, with the same result. Seven days after that he was copping ice, not steadily and rhythmically so that one could get used to it, bur irregularly. Success in this third plot was so overwhelming that he came back the following week and REPEATED THE PERFORMANCE...
Waving red railroad flares, the marches set fire-to leaf-piles and maple trees to add to the gaiety, and chant the procession onto "Nas-sau Street!" As the crowd, now 1000 strong, juggernauts hand-in-hand down the thoroughfare, the band leader cake-walks and a masquerade tiger polkas with random dates...
...this doesn't make for much opportunity for Jolson to sing. Eventually, however, World War II intervenes, and he volunteers to entertain the armed forces. There are scenes of Jolson singing "Four Leaf Clover" in an Aleutian quonset hut and "Chinatown" under Tunisian palms; at length, he collapses with fever, and is flown home, where he falls in love with his nurse, (Barbara Hale...