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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Irishman | 10/27/1930 | See Source »

...like. Mr. Penney, like Mr. Hoover, followed a stressful, impoverished career to a felicitous climax. James Penney is now 54. His father was a Missouri Baptist parson. James was the seventh of 12 children. At the age of eight he earned his own clothing with a piggery, a watermelon patch. He ran a small store where the currency was pins. Stores of various kinds have occupied him ever since; he has been store clerk or storekeeper in Colorado, Wyoming, Utah. On $50 a month, he married Berta A. Hess of Denver. She died in 1910, left two sons.* By this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hoover-Curtis | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

Male voices--unaccompanied--dolefully and sweetly and with subtile syncopation sing plantation melodies. They are AIN'T IT A SHAME and WATERMELON. The artists: Utica Institute Jubilee Singers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RECORDS | 11/1/1928 | See Source »

...spring, and his mind's eye visualizing a yacht on the blue or a shack in the clouds. Even the dullest of subjects will fail to induce sleep, for now it is the plunk-plunk of a banjo drifting over rippling waters or the splash of a perfect "watermelon" from a twenty foot spring board that imparts a faint glean of intelligence to the student's shining face. Even the most exacting of lecturers are pleased these days with the brilliant countenances before them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 3/15/1927 | See Source »

...agricultural experiment station of Pennsylvania State College, veterinarians trussed up Jessie, two-year-old heifer, and plugged her as though she were a watermelon. Dr. S. L. Bechtel of the station had noted that Heifer Jessie's milk contained Vitamin B, although none of the fodder she ate carried any. The question whether Jessie manufactured her own Vitamin B was very important...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Peeking | 12/20/1926 | See Source »

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