Word: melone
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...Desks & Melon Balls. Groggle spouts 20th Century attitudes, but seethes with Neanderthal prejudices. In the business world, he can stand dilettante competition from women who are "on the marriage-market." "But let a poor benighted female . . . get serious about working, and she is relegated to a class with Catherine de Medici, Lady Macbeth, Use Koch, and . . . accused of Lesbianism, a shortage of the female sex hormone, an arrested Oedipus complex, and of not being a natural mother...
...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...
Virginia is a lonely widow with a melony figure and a melon for a head. She is old enough to be Sandrino's mother, and for a while she acts the part. Mornings, she shoos him off to his haberdasher job. Noons, she carts him his lunch topped with his favorite dessert, persimmons. When the weather turns nippy, she digs into her skimpy bank balance and buys him a coat. Then one day her jealous joshing about some unknown girl across the street gives Sandrino his cue-the poor woman is hopelessly in love with...
...watermelon is white until air reaches it and oxidizes it to red, Mewhinney gravely answered: "On July 10, 1893, Dr. Ebenezer P. Humford, F.R.S., LL.D., F.L.S., Ph.D., succeeded in slicing a watermelon inside a glass-encased vacuum at Wallace-Huxley Technological Institute, Hyannis, Neb. Wholly untouched by oxygen, the melon was red." An impressed reporter asked how he could remember so many facts. Soberly, Mewhinney said: "I am blessed with total recall...
...shovelful of New Jersey dirt (TIME, Jan. 29, 1945), Pfizer added it to its line, while continuing a search for an antibiotic of its own. Since no one ever knows where a new antibiotic will be turned up (the purest penicillin strain was discovered growing on a melon in Peoria), Pfizer began to check the molds in 100,000 different samples of soil, gathered from all over the world. The job, says McKeen, was to find "the compounds that God has put in the earth for centuries." After uncovering 75 possible antibiotics, none of which did the trick, Pfizer chemists...