Word: peanuts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Willie Francis ought to know what color death is. The skinny, slope-headed, 17-year-old Louisiana Negro saw and tasted death on May 3 as he sat and waited for it, strapped in Louisiana's portable electric chair. It tasted "like cold peanut butter," and took on "little blue and pink and green speckles, like shines in a rooster's tail" when the executioner whispered: "Goodbye, Willie...
...students of Marxiana, even the uninspired face of Zeppe, the vestigal remnant, should help to recapture the "good old days" when the Brothers' only comedy competition was Cal Coolidge. Chico, who triples as peanut-vendor, confidential agent and Minister of War in Groucho's parlor cabinet, shows the verve and talent for pantomime that has, in later productions, been drowned in a flood of dialogue and cute piano-peeking. Margaret Dumont, accused by Groucho of looking like an old tenement, is the perfect foil through bedroom to parlor to bedroom. If S.J. Perelman did not invent the gags there...
...Lyne Jepson-Turner). Playing the star of an elaborate rink called the Ice Gardens, and wife of the owner, Belita cuts as fancy a figure on a bedroom set as she does on ice. Her problem is to keep a chilly eye on Wolf Barry Sullivan, a criminally aggressive peanut hawker at the Gardens who covets both his boss's business investment and home life. The big skating spectacles, considerably more thrilling than the thrills-&-chills story, leave hardly any time for tidying up all the plot complications of passion and homicide...
...lost my Fräulein. The other day I gave her my week's candy ration, and when I went back to see her, she did not want anything to do with me. Could it possibly be that she did not like the licorice sticks, the peanut bar and the tropical chocolate? I admit I don't like them, but then I'm not starving." He signed it: "Wondering...
...Peanut Vendor. No New Dealer, Al Browning has sometimes voted Republican, is a businessman's businessman. He was pleasantly inducted into the virtues of free enterprise as a teen-aged boy in his home town of Blackfoot, Idaho. He got a job selling peanuts at village and county fairs, made only $1 a day on salary. When he persuaded his employer to put him on a commission (penny a bag) he hustled fast enough to make $3.50 a day, decided he was going to become a salesman...