Word: peanut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bags of peanuts in hand, Bing Crosby and three little Crosbys clumped into the dressing room of the spring-training Pittsburgh Pirates. Said Part-Owner (25%) Crosby to Pitcher Kirby Higbe, as he popped a peanut into his mouth: "How's things, Kirby?" With a shudder, a Pirate locker man grabbed Bing just in time to arrest the flight of a second peanut. Bad luck, explained the locker man-eating peanuts in a dressing room...
...cebus monkey in the San Diego zoo, says Beach, showed rational business aptitude by offering sticks or pebbles to visitors who were rich in peanuts or candy. The enterprise of this monkey named "Trader" was so successful that he nearly died of overeating. At last he was removed to the controlled economy of an experimental cage and given poker chips to trade with. When he paid out a red chip, he got a bit of orange. A blue chip bought a peanut; a white chip a slice of banana. Green chips were worth a slice of bread (which Trader...
Trader learned quickly which chips had monkey value. He traded the white (banana) chips oftener than any other. Runner-up: the blue (peanut) chips...
...spots. Then she calmly went to bed. The raiders did not come; instead, they besieged the Norias division ranch house to the south. There eight bandits and one King rancher were killed. When other bandits kidnaped a ranch resident the vaqueros nabbed them by following the shells which the peanut-loving bandits had dropped...
...original claim holders sold out early. Writes Lewis: "When Alvah Gould sold, for less than $500, his half interest in the Gould & Curry, he boasted of having duped his fellow Californians; but his claim yielded 15 millions, and Gould ended his days operating a peanut stand in Reno...