Word: rhubarb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thundering out of the night, the plane brushed a rhubarb patch, caromed off a tree and a shed, crashed through the wall of Joseph Arisa's frame house. It burst like a flaming meteor into the Arisas' parlor. A moment before, the Arisas, their four children, their roomer, his brother and two guests had been playing cards. Joseph Arisa, his clothing ablaze, leaped through a window. The others scarcely had time to shriek before they were incinerated. With them died the plane's three occupants. (Joseph Arisa soon died in a hospital...
...modern practice of medicine plus the modern advertisement of proprietary drugs has almost wiped out the homel use of simple. Nonetheless, a demand persists for senna, henna, pennyroyal, hops, boneset, camomile, sage, tansy, flaxseed, rhubarb, ginger root, fennel seed, aniseed, saffron, viburnum...
...which everything was discovered and nothing known; an age in which all the outlines were tremendous and all the details sordid; when gas-jets struggled feebly through the circumambient fog, when the hour of dinner might be at any moment between two and six, when the doses of rhubarb were periodic and gigantic, when pet dogs threw themselves out of upper storey windows, when cooks reeled drunk in areas, when one sat for hours with one's feet in dirty straw dragged along the streets by horses, when an antimacassar was on every chair, and the baths were minute...
...another baboon breathed its last. That was the end of Merrimack's great May hunting day. The baboons, lately bought by Mr. Braden from the Benson Animal Farm, had escaped while being transferred from one cage to another, had rooted up some of Dr. Denicola's rhubarb. Merrimackers were afraid they might bite...