Word: potatoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Honeydew melons get all balled up and think they're marbles after coming in contact with our fruit and potato bailer. Butter likewise...
...Pausing from his potato-peeling in San Quentin prison, Thomas Mooney said that he was convinced that Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr. of California would not grant him the pardon for which Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker of New York went 3,000 mi. to beg last month. "Not a chance," said Prisoner Mooney, on the eve of his sixteenth Christmas behind bars since he and Warren K. Billings were convicted of bombing San Francisco's 1916 Preparedness Day parade. "Powers of business and politics will dictate Governor Rolph's decision. ... It looks as though I would...
...famed potato toter: Secretary of Labor William Nuckles Doak...
...carry a raw potato in the in the pocket was an old-fashioned remedy against rheumatism that modern research has proven to have a scientific [sic] basis...
...Perhaps it [hurling] began when two Irishmen fought with clubs for the possession of a potato and their neighbors took sides. There was hurling in Ireland a thousand years ago and it has been played ever since...