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Word: pumpkin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...music for the U. S. faithful*, was well packed one night last week. It had been sold out for four days-good news in a season that had not begun too well for concert managers. Cause of the turnout was a brown, dignified, warm-smiling woman, in a billowy, pumpkin-colored gown which failed to add much to her melony 4 ft. 10 in. Negro Soprano Dorothy Maynor, just past her 30th birthday, had begun her second concert season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Maynor's Year | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

Editors asked for more. Dave invented Rochester's Mayor Walter Tripp (in real life proprietor of the Jiffy Lunch), had him announce a Reduced Production County Fair, dedicated to New Deal crop control. Prizes were offered for the scrawniest pig, puniest pumpkin, cow yielding the least milk, the most sterile quart of soil. A special prize awaited the farmer entering fewest exhibits. Appreciative, Associated Press sent the tale over its wires. From all over the U. S. letters poured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Taleteller | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

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