Word: peaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hamilton, British subject and East Orange, N. J. architect, famed for his prize-winning design for Moscow's projected Palace of Soviets (TIME, March 14). When he spoke Mr. Hamilton was in Manhattan but expected to spend most of his time for the next three years in "a peach of a suite in Moscow at the Hotel National...
...live in a peach of a suite in Moscow at the Hotel National!" enthused Mr. Hamilton. "All of the Soviet officials I have dealt with are cultured and really swell persons! They are paying me so much that in three years I shall be independently wealthy. My salary is paid monthly in American money and I have special permission to take money out of Russia. I tell you it's a paradise for an architect like...
Last week President Edgar Winfred Stark of Stark Bros. Nurseries & Orchards Co., Louisiana. Mo.,* flourished the papers which gave him the first patent in the world on a fruit tree. It covers his Hal-Berta giant peach tree. The Hal-Berta, President Stark excitedly sets forth, "bears uniformly large, rosy-cheeked, delicious to eat, yellow-fleshed, freestone peaches, many of them weighing more than a pound, ripening a few days after the Hale-Elberta [peach] season when a truly high quality peach such as the Hal-Berta Giant will mean profit to the man who grows them and pleasure...
While the Paris Stock Exchange was closed in honor of Aristide Briand, while 500,000 Parisians reverently stood in the Champs Elysée intent upon the Peach Man's funeral, a large pistol went off in a luxurious apartment nearby. No one heard it except Ivar Kreuger, the "Swedish Match King," the self-made colossus of Scandinavian finance. Matchman Kreuger was putting a bullet into his heart for business reasons (see p. 45) and for human reasons. His nerves were drawn so taut (he had suffered a nervous breakdown recently in New York) that to release the strain...
...Peach O' Reno," the accompaning comedy, is both weak and fatuous. A supposed satire on the mecca of American married life, it combines some good humor with as bad slap-stick comedy as Hollywood is capable of producing. The stupidity of most of the jokes is inexcusable, but nevertheless the audience laughs...