Word: pom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prune-proud San Jose, Calif., at a breakfast that was prunes from end to end, the California Chiropractors' Association suggested in a friendly way that the prune be renamed "Petite Pomme Noire d'Amour" (Little Black Apple of Love). Prune-growers favored simply "Pom...
...society page of the New York Herald Tribune one day last week appeared the following item: "Mr. and Mrs. Debar de Brunhoff, of Paris, announce the birth of triplets, Pom, Flore and Alexandre, early in March in Paris. The entire family is now in New York visiting Mrs. Richard A. Kimball (Josephine J. Dodge) at 714 Madison Avenue. Mrs. de Brunhoff is the former Miss Celeste d'Aguillon, of Paris...
...flimsy role of a heroine who, having passed the night with an aviator on leave, has to express her certainty that she has given him a "moment of heaven." The aviator is Charles Farrell who portrays drunkenness by waggling his head from side to side. The lady, nicknamed Pom-Pom, has been the wife of one of his friends who is killed in action. She is temporarily suspected of being a spy. Farrell is therefore accused of having, in moments of intimacy, given information to an enemy agent. Emotional tensity is emphasized by dropping articles on the floor: a champagne...