Word: melone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into the driveway in front of a brick Tudor house in fashionable North Indianapolis, Ind. Frank McKinney, Indiana's top machine Democrat, and his wife Margaret greeted their old friends. The Trumans went in, washed up and sat at the McKinney's dining-room table for lunch (melon-ball cup, breast of chicken on ham, asparagus, stuffed oranges, hot rolls, black currant preserves, strawberry angel...
...favorite form of amusement, before he got so busy trapping rascals, was the practical joke. Once, when a neighbor invited the Williamses to share a watermelon, Williams slipped over ahead of time, took the heart out of the melon, filled it with newspapers, and replaced the end section of rind. Top officials of the Treasury Department, staring at their newspapers as Williams announced his findings, have sometimes felt like the host at the watermelon party...
...Enjoyable ... Enjoyable." Last week Bob blew the bugle. At Ike's invitation, he drove up to Eisenhower's Columbia University residence on Morningside Heights. The two breakfasted on honeydew melon, scrambled eggs, rolls and coffee. Afterward, they adjourned to the library, where Taft brought out a unity statement he had prepared for the press. Eisenhower read it over. They discussed it, with Bob writing in some changes and Ike scribbling down others. By the time the newsmen were admitted, the two had finished with politics and were chatting about fishing. "A very enjoyable talk," said Ike. "An enjoyable...
...melon-choly sound...
...past century has added to women's work ... A man invents a vacuum cleaner and ... a co-conspirator popularizes Venetian blinds, so there will be something else for the vacuum cleaner to do in a jiffy. A man turns out a simple little mechanism to make melon balls, and it's no longer comme il faut to toss a plain hunk of melon into a fruit salad ... In the period when beer came in kegs, the man of the house hauled it himself. Now that it comes in handy little cans, even a woman can lug a dozen...