Word: rhubarb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like everyone else, moviemakers expected the Brooklyn Dodgers to win the National League pennant. In Hollywood's latest diamond ditty, the Bums not only do that, but take the World Series from their archivals, the Yankees. These wonderful but unlikely happenings are all due to an alley cat named Rhubarb...
...over of the last-place Brookynites makes the spirited cat the club's mascot in the hope that some of its fight will rub off in his lethargic team. In midseason the owner dies, leaving the t4eam to Rhubarb who, after many adventures, leads the Bums to an inevitable triumph...
...Milland, as rhubarb's reluctant nursemaid, and his cat-allergic fiancee, Jan Sterling, go through their antics with proper levity. But Rhubarb, of course, is the best actor...
...Rhubarb, the cat, comes out of the book and on to the Paramount and Fenway screen to give you riotous entertainment...
...Canaigre (Rumex hymenosepalus), also known as wild rhubarb, long recognized as a source of fine tannic acids. High on the critical materials list during World War II, most tannin is still imported. Canaigre also gives starches and sugars which ferment to alcohol, might provide an antibiotic effective against some forms of tuberculosis...