Word: tomatoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seen so much lettuce and tomato juice in the last few weeks I feel like a rabbit with a hangover...
...Presidential candidates. Unfortunately, after the Elwood show was set to go, Newschief Paul White of CBS, to which Vox Pop transferred in 1939, forbade any mention of Wendell Willkie, on the ground that his name was controversial. Obediently Interlocutors Johnson & Butterworth discussed with the citizens of Elwood the Tomato Festival then taking place. This went on until an old gaffer cackled: "Why don't you ask about the most important thing in Elwood-Wendell Willkie? Man and boy I've known him 50 years. I've even got his first diaper. It's down...
...most common order according to Richard Fellows '41, director of the Food sandwich. The most complicated order ever received is a sandwich which consisted of lettuce, tomato, bacon, peanut butter and mustard. The "meandering meatball" service was established by the Student Council in order to satisfy the wants of the night-owls who are not satisfied by the dining hall food...
Said the court: "We think that Congress, in the use of the word 'plant,' was speaking in the common language of the people." The court also recalled that the Supreme Court once classed the tomato as a vegetable for tariff purposes, although scientists call it a fruit...
...third version of the late Sidney Howard's 1925 Pulitzer Prizewinning play, is principally a distinguished directorial exercise with three notable characterizations. A mustache, black curly hair, a soup-thick Italian accent hide the last vestiges of Captain Bligh in Laughton; Carole Lombard works the smell of tomato catsup into her hash-house waitress; William Gargan as the romantic ranch hand is a cad with gusto. Serious students of cinema technique will find many a valuable lesson watching these able craftsmen flex their artistic muscles as they act out the well-told tale of a pragmatic old Latin...