Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago, his home town, Benny Goodman was making a sensational stay at the Congress Hotel, was somewhat ambiguously lauded in a full-page advertisement on the back page of Variety as the possessor of an "individual hot-sweet 'swing' style, " had just played a Sunday afternoon recital to 800 Chicago jazz academicians who would no more have thought of dancing than they would of gavotting at a symphony concert. Clearly, Goodman, who played his first professional date in short pants on an excursion boat, was the Man Of The Hour to thousands of jazz fans...
...crack train, the Golden Gleam, a product of Mexico, was a double nasturtium, bearing ten petals to the ordinary blossom's five. Alert David Burpee of Philadelphia's W. Atlee Burpee Co. saw here a fine chance-if seized vigorously- to get ahead of his competitors. Sweet-scented but limited to its one glowing color, the Golden Gleam might be produced in various colors if crossbred with common nasturtiums...
...romances everywhere came in on the wings of the morning, set off down the broad highway. In England, Jeffery Farnol's Beltane the Smith, Baroness Orczy's The Scarlet Pimpernel, felt new life in their bones. A Dutchman named Johan Fabricius wrote his version of the old sweet song...
...friendship going by mail. His letters were intimate but literary, extremely publishable. They are not love-letters so much as polished exhortations; his emotions lie neatly pressed between these pages. Not Harriet's image but a night sky of frosty stars made him feel "again the sudden impalpable sweet pang, like a harp-string softly struck in the core of my being...
...spent the interim in the gutter or had just not felt like writing: "After a time came rebellion and reckless grasping after life or what bore the semblance and wore the red flower of life, careless whether-nay, even glad if its heart were poisoned. I took-O sweet and noble soul, this will pain you cruelly, but I must tell it-I took the ring from my finger, for it burnt my flesh with its impossible summons and its intolerable reproach." Three weeks later he wrote that he thought he would soon be able to get it back...