Word: spinach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Union threw in their hands, went on strike. Said one of their picketing placards: "We can't get much spinach on salaries...
...faith, then all is well." While a crowded, sandwich-munching congregation gawped, Preacher Lee launched his sermon, using no notes, expounding God and Christ chapter by chapter from the Bible. He was still in Genesis when the dietitian brought him dinner, which afforded a digression. "I never liked spinach. . . . And I never liked turnips," he cried, his mouth full of them. "Hallelujah...
...king snake from the new reptile house, calmly fondled it as it coiled about her neck. "It never occurred to me to be afraid of them," shrugged she. who as a girl visited Walter Damrosch (see p. 47) at Bar Harbor with a green snake, Emily Spinach. Impressed, said Keeper Joseph A. Stephan: "Snakes know people who understand them. Mrs. Longworth does. The snake acted as if it were in the hands of an old friend...
...Manhattan when, in effect, Betty Boop and Popeye the Sailor went on strike. Actual strikers were most of the 135 employes of Fleischer Studios Inc., producers of Boop, Popeye and other animated cartoons. Shouldering placards displaying the cartoon characters and such legends as "We can't get much spinach on salaries as low as $15," they blocked the sidewalk in front of the Studio's building in Times Square, scuffled with police and non-strikers, got 14 of themselves arrested...
Feeling that University students only get a chance to express their opinion about spinach, the foreign debt, likeliness to succeed, and such matters, the Blanchard-Dorner publicity bureau are asking the twelve outstanding colleges in the country to conduct a poll to determine the most beautiful blonde in America...