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Word: peppermint (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1931-1931
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...declared: "Within the White House you can hear the shrill, excited laughter of little children. What if their grandfather is the President of the U. S? That does not prevent him from keeping in the top right-hand drawer of his desk a glass jar of sticks of peppermint candy. . . . What if a small girl and her younger brother swarm onto their grandfather's lap and after them and onto the same lap leaps a flop-eared and gangly puppy dog while the grandfather is at breakfast? . . . The puppy dog can see and reach the presidential plate. . . . A lightning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: War Conference | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

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