Word: salad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greatest fame comes from lettuce. Annually it produces half of Washington's bumper crop, third largest in the U. S. Kent's 2,000 citizens annually hold a three-day Lettuce Festival, big feature of which is the mixing of the "World's Largest Salad...
...once wore a pointed beard, gives a contemporary instance of his platform wit. One of a hostile audience shouted: "Take your hands out of your pockets!" To this Hitler shouted back: "Gentlemen, I am not one of those who talk with their hands!" According to Heiden, Hitler in his salad days practiced making an impression on people by always arriving late, saying nothing at first, suddenly launching into an oration, then taking an unceremonious leave. Heiden makes what he can (which is not much) of Hitler's devotion to his niece and her unexplained suicide. Neither satisfactorily solves...
...Hunters eat seal, walrus and whale meat. The Eskimo "has some carbohydrates for approximately two months in the year, in the form of blueberries. He also relishes the stomach contents of the caribou which, throughout the year, contain carbohydrates. . . . The stomach contents are often eaten with seal oil-a salad! When an Eskimo catches a walrus he immediately opens the stomach and eats all of the clams. . . . The Eskimos eat the livers of practically all animals, except that of the white bear. . . . Only when in need does he consume very large quantities of fat. Blubber is not regarded...
...country place near Pass Christian, Miss. As soon as she could go to New Orleans, three big parties, organized respectively by the Times-Picayune, the Tulane University School of Journalism and her friends, were to honor her four decades of newspaper work, during which time her journalistic salad had grown from a side dish in one New Orleans paper to a main course in 200 throughout the world. Hired in 1896 for $5 a week and now retained for $70,000 a year as personal counselor to some 13,000,000 readers, Dorothy Dix unquestionably has become the world...
...Picayune, Dorothy Dix was soon covering general assignments, as well as writing her weekly article for women. "Sunday Salad" slowly gathered such an audience that in 1901 Dorothy Dix was hired away by the Hearstian New York Journal...