Word: melons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Just too young to sublimate his youthful ardors in the melee for Liberty, Stephen Burroughs, hulking son of a Hanover, N. H., clergyman, boiled up beneath his Presbyterian upbringing and over into melon-snitching, horse-borrowing, neighbor-baiting pestiferation that earned him many beatings and an early discharge from Dartmouth College. Posturing as a ship's doctor, he went off to sea. A sharp, overweening tongue landed him in irons, foolish but innocent. At home again, penniless, he calculated his next plan for a career more thoughtfully. He stole some of his father's sermons and marched...
Rodolph Valentino (real name Rodolfo Guglielmo) : "Day Dreams, a volume of poems and philosophy written by me, made its appearance in bright melon-colored binding. In one poem, called You, I said...
When the Wrigley Chewing-gum Company can declare a fifty million dollar stock melon as it did two days ago, it is time for the tireless foreigner who delights in criticising America to sit up and take notice. The national propensity for ice-water, the erection of enormous buildings, and the proverbial love of the dollar are all designated as "typically American," but the gum-chewing habit is even more "typical". And the Chicago company's action will certainly cause statistic-hunters to chortle with glee at this unexpected windfall...