Word: potatoe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Twenty-four times the menu included fried chicken and ice cream, ten times potato salad.) He was presented with: a light fedora (to replace a beloved dark hat he left behind in Franklin, Ind. as the train pulled out without waiting for him); an oil painting (rural landscape in early U. S. calendar style) by Postmaster Maurice Goodwin's sister in Indianapolis; a mule-skinner's cane at Mule Day ceremonies in Columbia, Tenn., a women's club pin and philatelic relics of Pony Express days, and an Indian peace pipe, at St. Joseph, Mo.; a book...
...cotton ginners. Then off on the straight roads through the miles of green fields, the corn up, redbuds already past their prime, white dogwood lacing the roadside woods, the Texas bluebonnets peeping in blue and cream patches, temperature 94°. At Hillsboro, more politicians, cold ham and potato salad, coffee in paper cups; at Marlin, home of old Texas Tom Connally, a speech in praise of Tom; at Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College, biggest combined military, agricultural, petroleum engineering and veterinary school in the U. S. (it furnished more Army officers in World War I than West Point), maneuvers...
...Ireland from which de Valera came to the U. S. in 1919 was not the same island from which Irishmen had fled to the U. S. in the times of Cromwell and William of Orange, not the same island whose people fled to the U. S. during the potato famines of a century ago. Meanwhile, it had had a cultural renaissance. Irishmen had begun again to take poetic pride in their land, with its purple mountains, its lakes and glens peopled with green-coated, leather-aproned leprechauns, the heather-crowned hills of Donegal, the rocky outlines of the Aran Islands...
Died. Ralph Hitz, 48, Viennese immigrant to the U. S. who floor-scrubbed, dish-washed, potato-peeled, super-sold his way into the presidency of the $22,000,000 Hotel New Yorker and National Hotel Management Co., Inc. (seven hotels); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Best-known of U. S. hotelmen, Ralph Hitz overwhelmed his customers with services, operated under the motto: "Give 'em value and you get volume." His employes' version: "We contact the hell...
...plane turned out to be that rented by David Hyde, instructor in Physical Education, who, while trying for his pilot's license, was forced down with engine trouble into a potato patch on Deer Island in the harbor...