Word: navel
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When Californians suffer a fruit-killing frost, as last week, Floridians quietly gloat. When Floridians suffer a tree-destroying hurricane, as a year ago last autumn, Californians gloat. But until this winter growers of California navel oranges and growers of Florida Valencia oranges have discreetly avoided talking down the other fellows' fruit in northern cities where the chief customers of both live. The California Fruit Growers Exchange broke this discreet merchandising convention this winter by advertising flatly in newspapers and magazines, on streetcar cards and billboards: "Sunkist navel oranges are 22% richer in vitamin C [anti-scurvy, anti-colds...
...forceful, caught the public fancy at once, grew famed when Cartoonist Batchelor pictured him perched pensively on a rock high over Washington, reflecting, "Gawd, how I hate his guts." Since then "Old Deal" has boasted, blustered, sneered, gloomed, acquired a pair of shorts and a sunflower patch over his navel, served as inspiration for a new political animal, taken his place in cartoon history...
...replied to by her devoted chief secretary, Mrs. Ellen Bentley Arthur. Knottier inquiries are answered by dictation direct from the oracle's mouth. A few howlers are preserved for the edification of Miss Dix's friends. One which the childless adviser particularly ikes: "My baby's navel looks downcast. What can I do to naturalize...
John Condreanu knew that he was different from the other boys in his Transylvanian village, because he had a very big navel and he was an orphan. When he fell in love with Marina and then saw that she and his best friend had no eyes for anyone else, that brought his differentness to a head. He announced that he was going to America...
...small, neat form, the pretty face and the sharp French accent of Lily Pons. The operatic basis for its plot is the one which enables Miss Pons to carol Caro Nome from Rigoletto to her provincial music teacher, to make a big splash in Paris, to exhibit her navel in Hindu undress as she negotiates the spectacular Bell Song from Lakmé. Introducing a second formula, Henry Fonda, a U. S. musician who thinks he can compose opera, picks up Miss Pons, performs the impossible under France's laws by marrying her during an evening of drunkenness. Under...