Word: peppermints
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bolles was quite chagrined when he read in the Boston Herald that Lauren C. Kingman, Jr., of West Concord, Harvard senior and member of last year's junior varsity crew, broke the Harvard ice cream record, downing no less than 27 dishes of peppermint stick ice cream smothered in chocolate sauce. At the Adams House dining hall, however, Mrs. Anne Jarrett, house hostess, denied the feat...
...then packed himself off to Yale. Broke when he entered, he organized and ran an eating club, marked himself as likely to succeed by being graduated (1905) with a financial surplus. He started making Life Savers 25 years ago in a one-room loft in Manhattan, stirring the peppermint flavor into the mixture himself...
...convivial way about the capital, because in the kind of politics he plays, embarrassing letters cut little ice. Bob Reynolds won his first campaign in 1910 for prosecuting attorney by going into the mountains astride an old mare with two huge saddlebags stuffed with red, white & blue striped peppermint candy which he distributed to children. His second campaign, in 1924, for lieutenant governor, he lost by taking a trip around the world, sending his constituents political postcards from such places as Port Said, Singapore, Shanghai, Kobe. In 1932 he had his first major political success when...
...Roosevelt hungered for romance on the high seas. Never having outgrown his juvenile appetite for maritime adventure, the 32nd U. S. President's eyes sparkled appreciatively last week when he stepped ashore on a Treasure Island as fabulous as Robert Louis Stevenson's. Like a big green peppermint gum drop ringed with a frost of spun sugar, the densely vegetated peaks of Cocos Island rose some 2,000 ft. over his head, while all around the island's steep 13-mile perimeter the Pacific lathered its boiling white waves. Offshore the President could see porpoise sporting glossily...
Located in the central part of the State 35 mi. west of Warren Gamaliel Harding's Marion, McGuffey lies in the mucklands around the Scioto River where the National Onion Growers Association controls 17,000 acres of onions and peppermint. In June the 700 men, women & children who weed the crop 10 to 12 hours a day for a maximum wage of 12 an hour struck for 35? an hour and an 8-hour day. The American Federation of Labor rushed in to organize the strikers who, finding that they got more out of the Relief Administration than they...