Word: turnip
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From almost every viewpoint, the special "Turnip Day" session had been a failure. Neither side had gained any political advantage, although Republican refusal to act made it easier for Harry Truman to pin a do-nothing label on the 80th Congress. But New York's Senator Irving Ives dropped a loud hint that Tom Dewey would probably disassociate himself from the G.O.P. congressional record in the campaign...
...last week, probably does not exist as such in the onion. More likely, it is produced by the complicated enzyme activity that goes on in the onion when it is cut. Cooking would eliminate it completely; a boiled onion is no more good for a cold than a boiled turnip. But chewing a raw onion might help a cold (it would undoubtedly prevent spread of colds by keeping non-onion eaters away from the cold sufferer...
...godless little acre of squalor and lechery staked out by Novelist Erskine Caldwell has been tilled to exhaustion (Tobacco Road, God's Little Acre, Tragic Ground). But Caldwell still goes on. His latest harvest is an unappetizing literary turnip called The Sure Hand...
Talent on the Table. Daniel never did very well at school; for a while his family wondered what would become of him. Then one day when he was about 17, Daniel put beside his father's plate a turnip whittled to resemble a frog, in tail coat and trousers. "This," the judge exclaimed, "really looks like talent...
Then he had some horseplay anyway. A lawyer argued that the witness did not know how long a minute was, and suggested timing her. The judge pulled a turnip-sized watch from under his black robe. The witness looked glassily out the window. Almost at once she said a minute was up. The judge had timed it at eight seconds. The court took judicial notice that it was less than 15 seconds. It also noticed that workers walked faster leaving work than going...