Word: pumpkin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan's Art Students League dusted out its classrooms for the opening of the fall semester last week, a spry, round-faced oldster with a head as bald as a pumpkin prepared for another whack at the job he had been doing year in & year out for the past 43 years: teaching U.S. artists how to draw the human figure. The oldster's name, as unfamiliar to the general public as it is familiar to practically every artist in the U.S., was George Brant Bridgman. Teacher Bridgman has good reason to take his teaching duties seriously. Some...
...first rain came. Dixon made "the lads" take off their underwear, tear it into strips which soaked up the rain and could be squeezed into an oar pocket. The next morning Aldrich used the pocketknife to spear a fish which "looked something like what we used to call a pumpkin perch. We ate the liver, all the innards and some of the flesh...
...inert gases such as carbon dioxide) are sometimes used to keep air away. Tomatoes come off the drum like an endless sheet of red crepe paper, crumble into microscopic flakes which will store well for at least three years. Best products: tomatoes, potatoes, apples, bananas, peaches, peas, squash, pumpkin...
...Minister to the U.S., and went to his annual Warm Springs turkey dinner, twice postponed by the crisis. He did well by the 4,300 calories (twice the volume of three ordinary meals) from gingered fresh fruit in cider through roast young torn turkey and oyster-corn stuffing to pumpkin...
...Nazi propagandist that London dubbed "Lord Haw-Haw" caught many a listening British ear. Nightly from Germany, in accents more Oxonian than the Isis, he sneered at Britain's martial aims, deplored the bucktoothed poverty of the British populace, condemned Britain's leaders as a bunch of pumpkin heads. His sneers hit close enough home to rate his being listed as Britain's most annoying invisible mosquito. Who was he? It was a problem that baffled the easily bored British. At last the infallible ear of a deserted wife in Sussex recognized Lord...