Word: potatoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cheerless Cottage D of a midwestern reform school. Onto this scene is led a collection of small, wary ruffians: Little Deadman ("He won't let nobody touch him"); pudgy Pieface; Horsethief, whose malady is obscure and horrid. Poison mean is Roy Wells (John Drew Colt), ringleader of the potato-peeling "Centipede's Club." Robert Locket (Edwin Philips) is the most sensitive young prisoner, a fact which early bodes him ill. In him Mrs. Sanger, wife of the weak cottage supervisor, takes a strange and unnatural interest...
Earning her keep compels Elizabeth to view Donald, the novelist, in a new light. Having had some sense knocked into her, she chirrups: "I don't care if I never read another poem again-so long as my stomach's full. Love is not a potato. You can't eat it." An unpoetical but potato-providing suitor is close at hand. Dr. Stevens (Brian Donlevy), family friend and star boarder...
...Potato-nosed Jimmy Durante, the living composite of Manhattan cab drivers, did not have to work hard for his laughs. Covered with characteristic confusion, Funnyman Durante finds himself trying to climb over the orchestra pit to assert his identity when an impostor is introduced on stage in the second scene. He appears to be, as usual, utterly unable to control his feelings. He shakes his parrotlike head, hurls his hat at the band, indulges his ignorant fondness for British idioms, tells the old one about the floorwalker who thought he was about to be kicked by the dog, sings snatches...
...team, was its light-heavyweight boxer. Now he is at Harvard. Mr. Zemurray, when in Boston, lives at the Ritz. In Tangipahoa Parish 50 mi. north of New Orleans he has a vast country place, stocked with wild deer, pheasant and quail. Its artificial lakes are planted with duck potato to lure wildfowl. It also has a golf course on which its owner occasionally breaks 100. Mr. Zemurray endowed a Department of Middle American Research at Tulane for $1,000,000, gave it the famed Gates collection of Mayan relics...
General Francesco de Pinedo, Italy's onetime Chief of Staff for Aviation and round-the-world flyer, announced in Manhattan that he is thinking of raising potatoes in China. Said he: "There are 400,000,000 people in China and if every Chinese eats one potato a day that would be 40,000,000 kilos a day. That's a lot of potatoes...