Word: mushroomer
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...Tired of mushroom Cabinets, most Japanese hailed the new Government with enthusiasm, felt that if it could survive the next Budget it might restore unity, permanence and some sort of liberalism to Japanese politics...
...Nicoll begins with a disingenuous comparison of the present-day cinema with Elizabethan drama. What appears to be an account of our cinema, "a thing of almost mushroom growth, having a valid tradition which extended over no more than a few decades," whose managers "were intent only on what the box office receipts testified to be of immediate appeal," is a criticism equally applicable to the drama in Shakespeare's day. Having but placed us in a receptive state of mind, Mr. Nicoll proceeds to give an historical summary of the amazingly swift development of the cinema from its genesis...
...when Luther Burbank died in 1926. In 1930 President Hoover signed a bill enlarging the class of eligible patentees to include anyone "who has invented or discovered and asexually reproduced any distinct variety of plant other than the tuber-propagated plant." One patent covers an improved mushroom, another a pecan nut. Flowers account for more patents than edible plants, roses for the most flower patents, hybrid-tea shrubs for the most roses. Luther Burbank's heirs have patented some of his plums and peaches. Patent No. 19, for a coral-colored dahlia, was granted to Harold LeClair Ickes before...
Lowell Honge Dining Hall continued to serve meals throughout vacation for the benefit of these who found it expedient to remain in Cambridge. Christmas Dinner was an imposing meal, a tribute to the ingenuity of Roy Westcott and his minione. Starting with cream of mushroom goup, the meal ran the traditional gamut of turkey and ended gloriously with mince pic, pumpkin pic, plum pudding with hard sauce, vanilla ice cream with fudge sauce, small cakes, apples, oranges, grapes, mixed noig, cluster raisins, and cheepe and crackers...
Thickly frosted in the frigid air of Moonlight Valley, S. Dak., start of the two previous failures, the great rubbery bag grew like a mushroom in the night as 300 soldiers labored beneath floodlights to pump in 300,000 cu. ft. of helium. By dawn all was ready. The balloonists climbed aboard, shouted: "Up, balloon!" Released, it floated gently away, cleared the rim of the woodsy valley, drifted out of sight as the 20,000 chilled spectators trekked back to Rapid City. Six hours later, Capt. Stevens radioed that Explorer II had touched 74,000 ft., well above both...