Word: peppermint
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall"-no wonder that it [a baby] awoke in the night and cried. . . . Nursy or mother might have thought baby had a stomach ache and given it peppermint tea, but we know that it was fear that awakened1 baby, and only love destroys fear. . . . What a stretch of the imagination-asking a child to believe that a heavy mooley cow could jump over the moon! Think of a kitty playing a fiddle and then try to convince the child that a dish could run away with a spoon. . . . Thus the children...
...Peppermint candy and tea were fed the Yale soccer team at its game last Saturday with Pennsylvania. The novel diet was introduced by Professor Yandell Henderson, Professor of Applied Physiology, in the hope that the increased amount of sugar that was introduced into the blood by the candy would find its outlet in increased energy in all the men during the second half...
...watched her dreaming face, and over her lay a coverlet of antique French lace pricked with a legend that one did not translate aloud. With Admah Holtz, things were otherwise. His white-trash father drank himself to death, day by day, in the cabin kitchen where Ma Holtz made peppermint-drops for her son to hawk in the streets. Sometimes the girls in Miss Martincastle's school patronized him, Flora Lee once among them. Having seen, Admah never forgot her. Her arrogant and perfumed phantom lived in his memory while he put the peppermints behind a counter, bought...
Over 4000 pennies were contributed by the Freshmen, other gifts including Canadian and Italian coins, blank checks, cough drops, cigarettes, a pair of dice, an empty cartridge, and one peppermint Life-Saver...
...quaint child one sees. We have with us again the precocious girl orphan who confides in her diary and longs to be an author-the unsympathetic relatives who are won over by her shy independence - the Great Family Secret-the letters to Father in Paradise-etc., etc. But the peppermint sticks are tastier than the run of such literary peppermint sticks; the author knows her locale, Prince Edward Island, and writes of it with some intelligence. All in all it is a wonderful book to give that old-fashioned aunt. But be sure to include a box of handkerchiefs...