Word: pumpkin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grinning, pumpkin-plump Clara, 46, is not the cinema ideal of a hula queen. One night at the Royal Hawaiian, to the distress of the management, she sang and danced a brazen number called When Hilo Hattie Does the Hilo Hop. Composer Don McDiarmid was aghast ("I had in mind a slender, beautiful Hawaiian maiden-and look at you"). But the cash customers wanted more. The song became her trademark, and Hilo Hattie soon became Clara's professional name...
...yeomen, including Moss Hart, Dorothy Parker and Pearl Buck. Acres and Pains, made up of 21 pieces originally published in magazines, deals sharply with such rural hazards as weekend guests, domestic animals, tractors and antiques ("Is anybody around here looking for a bargain in an Early Pennsylvania washstand? . . . Genuine pumpkin pine, with ball-and-claw feet, and a small smear of blood where I tripped over it last night in the dark"). Unlike some other city farmers, Perelman can make a profit out of the country-by writing about...
What matter if children carve up a pumpkin and set a wobbly candle in the shell? But fear for your life if nations carve up the earth into spheres of influence. Beware the man or nation who tries to disembowel the One World which is the last refuge of our hopes...
...pounds underweight at 183, went through his usual routine. He hunted up a razor-blade and shaved down the hard calluses on his right thumb and ring-finger. He picked up a baseball to see if it felt light and small (a good omen) or heavy like a pumpkin (a bad omen). It felt soso...
...family residing at 57 Mt. Auburn Street reported last night that their pet bird had flown the coop. They maintain that it flew into the arms of hooded abductors who cried, "An Ibis for an Ibis!" The bird answers to "Thresky" and will eat only pumpkin seeds...