Word: tomatoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Package Deal. In Nashville, the Hide-Away Restaurant advertised: "Hangover breakfast . . . tomato juice, raw eggs, aspirin, black coffee, our deepest sympathy...
...stucco-covered brick building on a nameless blacktop road. It has 500 depositors, $707,000 in deposits and assets, and five directors, most of them retired farmers, all but one, members of the same family. It is the sort of crib that "Pretty Boy" Floyd could crack while sucking tomato seeds from between his teeth...
...whole book imagines itself to be: plain common sense and practical advice. But there is also a great deal of pedantic nonsense whose prissiness would drive a climbing Milquetoast to despair, as he struggled always to say "telephone" (instead of "phone") and "whiskey and soda" (instead of "highball"). "TOMATO," says Author Fenwick firmly, "is better pronounced 'to-mah-to,' as ... it comes from the Spanish Toma-te,' which is pronounced 'tomahtay.'' This is a much hotter potato* than Author Fenwick seems to realize...
...Minn., he put in a word for Senator Joe Ball, who deserted him in 1944 to support Roosevelt and who is now fighting for his political life against Minneapolis' bouncing Mayor Hubert Humphrey. Ball, smiling bleakly, was allowed to stand on the rear platform with the candidate. A tomato hurled by another hoodlum grazed Ball's shoulder...
...hard cash. In the case of the horse-opera, this lure is excitement, the old-fashioned kind of excitement. Generations of frustrated cowboys have tolerated the same ragged plots over an over again simply for the emotional release they get through seeing a guy riddled with blanks and squirting tomato juice all over the lot. When they don't get this gunplay, when the picture gets arty and wanders out of its realm, western fans feel cheated; they get angry and bored...