Word: persimmons
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Skunk, Squash. The DAE pudding, however, contains many a juicy plum. It shows English being enriched, from the earliest days, by borrowings from the U.S. From the Indians came possum, persimmon, punk, skunk, squash, succotash; from the Dutch, cruller, sawbuck, scow, slaw, snoop, stoop, waffle; from the Spanish, cafeteria, calaboose, lariat, mustang; from the German, cranberry...
...lynx, the condor, the smooth persimmon...
...slash the price from 25? to 10? a copy. Second was to junk all purely literary features. He then divided the magazine into four general departments: Western Gardening, Western Homes, Western Foods (a Sunset All-Western Thanksgiving dinner included chilled papaya nectar, tortilla chips, spiced loquats and steamed persimmon pudding), and Western Travel...
Surprisingly few Civil War stories are included. One of them tells of Stonewall Jackson spying a straggler up a tree. " 'What the devil are you doing up a persimmon tree?' asked the General. 'Eatin' 'simmons, Gen'l, the private replied. 'What, eating persimmons in July!' exclaimed Stonewall. 'Why, man, don't you know they'll draw your stomach into a hard knot?' 'Waal, Gen'l, I figgered on that. I 'lowed to swink up my belly to fit my rations...
...office in August 1930 and for over a year stuffed carbon copies of his letters into a zipper compartment of her purse. Juicy bits of information were forwarded to Cities Service by means of an elaborate code. Mr. Parish was referred to as a "persimmon." Vice President S. J. Maddin was a "pineapple.'' an other official a "gooseberry." Missouri-Kansas was called "lemons." The Chicago Stock Exchange was "blackberries," the New York Stock Exchange "dewberries." In 1931 Frank Parish began to grow suspicious. Spy Walker contrived to have a nervous breakdown the following year, hurried to Kansas City...