Word: pumpkins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...collector of 18th and 19th century British painting (TIME, July 5, 1963). Since his mother was English and he loved riding to hounds, it was a taste that came naturally. In fact, his first purchase at the age of 29 was a picture of a horse named Pumpkin by the English proto-romantic artist George Stubbs. Then, after his marriage in 1948 to Rachel Lambert (whom he calls "Bunny"), he began exchanging such horsy enthusiasms for the vivacious vegetation of the French impressionist painters across the Channel. "Like the name of the style," he explains, "there is an ever-fresh...
...told her he would rather see her in a whorehouse than with her mother, and lectured her sternly about his superior philosophical systems ("Mine," he wrote, "are based on reason, and yours are merely the fruit of stupidity"). He was more jovial with his valet Carteron: "Ah: you ancient pumpkin cooked in bugs' juice, third horn of the devil's head, codface drawn out like the two ears of an oyster, slipper of a procuress." It was hardly an appropriate tone to take with one's valet, but Carteron was no ordinary valet; he was a member...
...here," speculates the Rev. Rene O. Bideaux of the Methodist Church, "They have them when they get off the bus." The Rev. Ernst E. Klein of the Baptist Church claims that "many students will not give us a chance because they are running from the Baptist Church in Pumpkin Corners. Iowa...
...former President and in eleven minutes deposited him at the hospital twelve miles away. When he got to Walter Reed, Ike said he was "feeling fine," later in the week had a Thanksgiving dinner with his family that included turkey, giblet gravy, candied sweet potatoes, buttered broccoli and pumpkin pie with whipped cream. He should be back on the golf course, said his doctors, early in the year...
When the frost was on the pumpkin and the ragweed menace died, the code was broken and checked against the record of patients' complaints. Those who had had ragweed extract in their shots were found to have had only about half the comparison group's episodes of sneezing, nose running, eye watering and itching. It was official at last: those millions of injections were worth the cost and discomfort...