Word: rhubarb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eddie Stanky, manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, a rhubarb with Umpire Douglas ("Scotty") Robb over a third strike called on Cardinal Shortstop Solly Hemus. National League Boss Warren C. Giles, who saw the row, in which Robb pushed Stanky, let Eddie off with a $50 fine, tabbed Hemus for $25, then slapped Robb with a "sizable" fine "much greater than the combined fines of the players...
...Hollywood's Carthay Circle Theater, movie folk watched and applauded last week as seven animals got their "Patsy" awards (the annual animal "Oscar") for outstanding performances. The first-prize winner: Rhubarb, a stealthy, orange-colored cat which starred in the picture of the same name. The other winners: Diamond and Smoky (horses), Corky and Chinook (dogs), Cheta (a chimpanzee playmate of Tarzan), and Francis (the "talking" mule). There were minor disturbances-Smoky was frightened and frisky; Diamond was nervous enough to misbehave onstage-but, all in all, the evening was a success. Moreover, it was a true sign...
...Both Rhubarb and Francis, the grey, mild-mannered first-prize winner of last year's Patsy, are the proteges of Independent Director Arthur Lubin. Lubin produced Francis in 1949 for $624,000, grossed $4,000,000, and thus .helped put Universal-International Studios comfortably in the black. He followed with three more mule films. Francis Goes to the Races is already popular. Francis Goes to West Point and Francis Covers the Big Town are still to be released...
What started out on December 7 as just another modern sculpture exhibit at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has turned into a free-swinging artistic rhubarb, with two University professors among the pack howling for the avantegardists' skins...
...Rhubarb over Rose's Spinach