Word: peanut
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...objects to fun, but God in Heaven, there is a place and time for it. Will you tell me what is funny about war? What is funny about Bubonic Plague? The CRIMSON'S campaign of advertising and publicity for the crowd of peanut brains who disrupted Friday's meeting was nicely calculated to attract all the lunatic fringe to turn out in expectation of a royal Roman holiday. The gleeful reporting fraternity and cameramen cooperated to make the flasco a howling success. The University had given the National Students League permission to hold the meeting; it had not given such...
...President William Green and William Collins, organizer for the industry. Then for three days General Johnson shuttled from one group to the other trying to arrange a settlement. At the end of the first day General Johnson held up his thumb and forefinger with only a hypothetical peanut between and reported, ''They are just that far apart." At the end of the second day the peanut had become a watermelon...
...hear somebody say "peanut" publicity...
...stores the five Tower Magazines (Love, Mystery, Home, New Movie, Tiny Tower). ¶¶Died. Benjamin Wood. 61, fourteenth of 15 children of onetime Mayor of New York Fernando Wood, chairman of the board of the Wood Flong Corp., manufacturers of stereotyping mats; of an abscess caused by a peanut lodged in his left lung; in Manhattan. ¶Died. Two Guns White Calf, 62, son of the last Blackfoot chieftain; after a brief illness; in Glacier Park, Mont, (see p. 10). ¶Died. Fielder Allison Jones, 62, baseball player and manager; in his sleep; in Portland, Ore. In 1906, Fielder...
...complaint from a business man in Columbus, Ga. which was typical of the little fellow's troubles. Tom (not Thomas) Huston was asking to be relieved from the operation of the chewing gum code. Tom Huston has not always been a gummaker. He used to be in the peanut business. Last year his gum salesmen spent so much time explaining the change that Tom Huston finally wrote a booklet : What Happened to Tom Huston - The Whole Story in a Peanut Shell. Son of a Texas peanut planter, he started to toast peanuts in a small shack in Columbus about...