Word: fruitful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...every main intersection, the cops were knee-high in mounds of cheese, nuts, cake, fruit, beer, wine, liquors, and an occasional mug of shaving cream. One Roman police sergeant estimated that before Befana was done, each member of the 130-man traffic police force took home an average of four bottles of wine plus a pound of pasta...
...chaos of French rentals, had just proclaimed that after Jan. 1 French floor space would be classified as "real," "useful" and "corrected." The law was drafted with clarity, system and thoroughness, qualities for which the French are famed. Also, the law was nuttier than an Alsatian fruit cake...
Last week it bore small fruit when Nurse Helen Maud Rowe took the baby for an outing on a footpath, pushing Elizabeth's old royal-blue pram. Cameras with telephoto lenses clicked furiously. But the pictures showed more pram than prince. Two days later one snapped a picture that showed the top of the prince's head (see cut). Then the royal family requested editors to call off their men. A reporter remonstrated with a lady pressagent at Buck House about the royal family's impregnable reserve. "After all," she retorted, "it is a private matter, really...
Food tops the list of presents that aren't clothes. Girls, especially those who live in local dormitories, picked candy, fruit cake or fruit packages--one fruit company puts out a special Christmas supplement of boxes of apples, pears, dried and candied fruit peels; dates and nuts--and boxes of assorted chunks of cheese...
From Detroit he went on to Des Moines. There he remarked on the largeness of the pears in a basket of fruit, visited Iowa State College, where he gingerly poked a pig. He looked in some astonishment on an "undulating Iowa countryside," which he had expected to be flat, and drank a glass of sherry at a cocktail party of Iowa bigwigs...