Word: peppermint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Know My Love (adapted from the French of Marcel Achard by S.N. Behrman; produced by the Theatre Guild & John C. Wilson) may run for years with the Lunts in it; without them, it would hardly last a week. Not since the perfection of the chocolate-covered peppermint has anything so thin also been so gooey. But with that delightful absorption in themselves that renders them oblivious to their surroundings, the Lunts are as arch, as expert and as enjoyable here as elsewhere...
Farmer Gehring, the biggest U.S. grower of mint, last week was in the midst of harvesting his highly profitable crop. From his 2,500 acres of spearmint and peppermint he expected to gross close to $600,000, almost double what the same acreage would yield in corn...
Gehring gets $3.50 to $5 a pound for spearmint and $5 to $7 a pound for the more delicate, harder-to-cultivate peppermint. This year, all of his spearmint will go to William Wrigley Jr. Co. to flavor chewing gum. The peppermint will go to Wrigley, Beech-Nut and other gum makers. Naturally, Gehring is a faithful gum-chewer...
...American Airlines gravely announced that its passengers "will be encouraged to munch peppermint candies" instead of chewing gum, the traditional way to overcome ear discomfort. American's medical department found, in "a careful investigation," that candy works just as well...
TIME'S human touch last summer in presenting Mormon Leader Smith as "slyly popping bonbons into his mouth" drew apt approval in Letters. Now in a single issue [March 29] we find Music-Maestro Ormandy and Ball-Bingler Crosby popping peppermint and peanuts into their mouths...