Word: rhubarb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unite the industry of all the nations of the earth." Britannia rode the crest of the wave. As cannons roared a royal salute, thousands of visitors thronged the Crystal Palace to gape at its wonders-the industrial triumphs of the steam age, as well as a champagne made from rhubarb, a knife with 300 blades, and the original Turkish towel (which so pleased Britain's Queen that she ordered six dozen...
...Among a long list of others on the way: Jim Thorpe, All American, The Dizzy Dean Story, a football comedy called That's My Boy and two baseball films, Rhubarb and Angels and the Pirates...
...Ducal Rhubarb...
...dashes onto the field to claim "Somebody done me wrong!"-or "On me fait tort!"-he is likewise raising the clameur, which is still known on the sport pages and the radio by a vestige of the original phrase: it's a "Hay Rube Bob !"-or a "Rhubarb...