Word: dimmer
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...other lands, where bread-eating peasants took a dimmer view of spuds, the rich and powerful attempted to overcome their prejudices. Frederick the Great sat on a balcony in Breslau and ate a mess of boiled potatoes in public, to prove to his Prussians that they were not poisonous. At the French court, Marie Antoinette, in the best 20th Century pressagent style, attended a potato banquet with potato blossoms decking her hair, to get Frenchmen to eat potatoes...