Word: pea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Sato and Manjome were busy writing a new song. It was titled Lovely, Lovely Sweet Pea...
...straight man in 1941, his show has held its own among favorites. Last week, he entered the top 15 with a Hooper rating of 16.8. He is even better as a storyteller. He sings, growls like a giant, laughs like a villainous ogre, wails like a princess with a pea in her bed. His tag line: "By the way, you better . . . turn over the record . . . while I light a cigar...
Anywhere else, the fog that seeped into noses, ears and throats would have frayed thousands of tempers, but Londoners had long since come to regard a Big Fog as a kind of picnic. Under the cloak of pea-soup anonymity, whistling as they felt their way, strangers walked and talked with strangers in a manner unthinkable in bright daylight...
...Pablo Picasso's 1930 semi-abstract Crucifixion, a crowded arrangement of pea-green, red and yellow limbs and lumps, in which Christ's face is a tiny knot of pain in the center of a doorknob-shaped skull...
When the presidential Sacred Cow took off from Washington National Airport, through cold rain and slush, all commercial airplanes had been grounded for three hours, and would be for ten hours more. The Sacred Cow flew in & out of a pea-soup overcast, ran into violent headwinds and icing. It arrived in Kansas City an hour and 19 minutes overdue. Even the President conceded that, while he had seen rougher trips, he had not seen many...