Word: popcorn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning recess (10:30), the children took their dinner pails out of closets, munched fruit and passed around popcorn They also put potatoes in the stove to cook for lunch. Johnny went out to the well to fetch water and Ralph to the shed for coal (Miss Campbell lets her boys take turns at these chores, pays them 15? week.) Then boys & girls went to play kickball (like baseball but played with a football) in the yard...
...cricket and the hide of a man of war. He was born on a distant planet called Krypton, whose inhabitants had a physical structure far more advanced than that of earth dwellers, but not enough perspicacity to keep their planet from blowing up like a grain of popcorn. In the debacle only the infant Superman escaped. Reared in an earthly orphanage, he grew to manhood, felt his oats, dedicated his life to helping those in need. In the eight months of his existence as a daily comic-strip character, Superman...
...Danes, 3 lions, 2 elephants, 2 deer, a leopard, a tiger, a hyena and a baboon. He put his 75 employees to work setting up the big top in a vacant lot next door, invited 10,000 poor children to come as his guests for "hot dogs, pink lemonade, popcorn and everything else that goes with a circus." Three extra platforms had to be set up outside the tent to hold the entertainers who offered free assistance. This week, among a jampacked, wildly cheering crowd of children, Mr. Meitus wandered happily, chortled: "Boy, am I havin...
...that repetition was the polite way of confessing ignorance. With no little sense of awe and appreciation of his luck he was walking with Byron Piccup along the bechildrened pavements in front of Dunster House; a few feet ahead lay their destination in the form of a lighted, whistling popcorn and hotdog stand. Yes, with Byron Piccup...
...Columbus the Nominee attended an Ohio State-Pitt football game, munched popcorn, hot dogs and pumpkin pie, was quoted as remarking: "There is nothing I enjoy more in football than light, fast backs...