Word: sutphen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eyes glistened, mouths watered, as C. J. Sutphen, pickle premier, secretary of the national association, proclaimed: "Garnished with crisp celery and olives and covered with cracked ice, pickles have held the rank of first of the American hors d'oeuvres. The most jaded of appetites respond to the stimulus of the pickle." Comparing notes, jubilant picklepackers reported mounting sales, renewed popularity of pickles, plain and fancy, sweet and sour, dill, warted...
...predecessors in "The Baseball Nine Books," as a series of trenchant treatises on scholastic morality. The scrivener to whom the beginnings of the series are ascribed is Christy Mathewson. His titles read: Pitcher Pollock, Catcher Craig, First Base Faulkner, Second Base Sloan. The array leads one to anticipate Shortstop Sutphen, Left Fielder Lumley, Center Fielder Cathcart and Right Fielder Rabinowitz...