Word: bananas
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...hungry, but hasn't any money, should he plant a garden, steal a pie, work for a meal, or get a permanent job?" "Is Italy shaped like a banana, boot, broom, or sausage?" were other queries...
...literary art. Even Mr. Calvert Smith's "Nueva Andalucia," a gracefully written and brilliantly colored--though uneven--story of South America, shows a similar tendency toward the odoriferous. and in "Nueva Andalucia" the good red blood is not content with remaining red; it blackens before our eyes, while the banana skins rot in the middle distance, and an "unclean native smell" fills...
...distinction will be added by the First Corpse Cadot Band, which will not play the dead March from Saul though of course such a proceeding would be a good joke. For those who do not care there will be all sorts of other forms of amusement from a banana peeling contest to an exhibition of Old Masters...
...Class of Nineteen Twelve, already famous for its Country Fair Convocations and Banana Nights, will eclipse itself at the full of the moon on Mayday by holding a great Barbecue in the Stadium. Never within the memory of the oldest goody has a Barbecue been seen at Harvard (Terry himself asked what a Barbecue was) and it is expected that the occasion will prove a Lone Star as it were on the Page of History. Roasted steers and loaves of bread will form the solid attractions...
...Senior Banana Night in Union...