Word: plums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trained seal on a barber's pole is balancing a whirling ball on the tip of his nose. Up the balustrade of the exterior staircase stalks a procession of pink elephants, rhinoceroses. The interior is even stranger, with carved witches and fairies, gnomes and children, a giant metal plum pudding, glass-eyed electric spiders that slither up and down on copper webs. To curdle young blood one room has a reproduction of the cauldron in which Jack's giant made pot-av-feu of his victims before Jack slew him. The walls are studded with bones...
...then there is the spread which antedates the famous ban on "plum cake" in 1639. The present has inherited all of this zest and feeling of an institution that harks back to the beginnings of Harvard. Yet all of this is mere froth, brilliant colors and empty noise. But behind it there is a meaning, and a very substantial tradition. It is the pageant of the unforgettable past...
Died. James Oliver Curwood, 19, namesake son of the late novelist (The Courage of Captain Plum, Philip Steele of the Royal Mounted, God's Country and the Woman, Nomads of the North); of a broken neck, a fractured skull; when his airplane hit a tree at Owosso, Mich...
Immediate plum of this great air fight: a Government airmail contract which United, having operated its group at a profit during the past hectic year (TIME, March 31), feels justified in trying to acquire, but which Curtiss-Keys, having been efficient managers, might ultimately retrieve...
...Devil's Plum Tree in Los Angeles, Emil Jannings asked her to make a picture with him. She is married to Ralph Forbes, an English actor. She is 5 ft. 2 in. tall, was born on Christmas...