Word: potatoe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Salad Day. In Chicago, John Newman confessed to police that he had broken into three stores, gobbled six pounds of potato salad, nine bottles of pop, 20 pounds of fruitcake...
...original purpose of serving salty items such as pretzels, peanuts and potato chips was to create a thirst. . . . With the whiskey shortage, this type of snack should definitely be eliminated...
...side). The bugs blasted off the plants are caught in funnels and sacks also carried by the tractor. With this simple device Nisbet removes from a single acre of cotton hundreds of pounds of boll weevils, bollworms, hoppers, leaf worms and other insects. The machine works as well on potato plants as on cotton. Nisbet builds his blowers himself in his own shop, has already sold six to neighboring cotton farmers at $275 apiece. Said one who has used it: "One operation . . . did more good than three applications of poison...
Derby's Canon Francis J. Edmond agreed that burial requests are sometimes blasphemous: "One man left instructions that his body should be burned and his ashes scattered over his potato patch. That man was really trying to show his contempt for his own body...
Enrico Caruso remained a highly informal character. Once when Lillian Nordica was about to lift her voice in a love duet with him, he deposited a hot potato in her hand. In Tosca, when Antonio Scotti stooped to pick up the paint brush beneath Cavaradossi's easel, he had to yank at it for minutes-Caruso had nailed it to the floor. Caruso's most celebrated peccadillo led to his arrest on the complaint of a Mrs. Hannah Graham who had run into him at the Central Park Zoo and testified breathlessly: "He insulted me. He brushed against...