Word: apricot
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...souls, who wish only to live and let live, are trampled beneath the feet of the climbers. But a day of reckoning comes: there is no Eden without the tree of the knowledge of right and wrong. Selina Jacox, stern, avaricious, grasping all she could hold, becomes the millionaire apricot Queen, known all over the country, and lived out her lonely days in a cheerless mansion, bejeweled and embittered, fabulously wealthy in money, but poor in everything else. Jim, the illegitimate son of her kindly, easy going husband, Captain Jacox of the "River Belle", is trained in the ways...
...force of men under Commissioner Wheeler, who scoured the countryside near El Portal, Calif. Some 8.000,000 bugs had been netted and stored. The reason: A ladybug is capable of eating in a season several thousand of the Aphis (green plant lice) which annually menace vineyards, peach and apricot orchards, and truck gardens in Mercer County...
...Recipe: one part orange juice, two of Calvados gin, one of apricot brandy, a dash of grenadine...
...London, "Golden Dawn," consisting of one part orange juice, two of Calvados gin, one of apricot brandy, a dash of grenadine, was chosen World's Finest Cocktail by an international jury of one trade, one press, two public, representatives and a maitre d'hotel. To insure against a jaded taste, only five cocktails were sampled at a sitting. Prize cocktail concocter: Tom Buttery, teetotaling barkeep at London's smart Berkeley...
...Penney home is a spacious Italian Renaissance villa of white limestone with a low roof of apricot-colored tiles. It overlooks Biscayne Bay, is set in the midst of tropical greenery cut by serpentine driveways. On the estate is a shallow goldfish pool bright with water blossoms, a mosaic tiled swimming pool, a putting green and an observatory with a little cupola like those of Mohammedan minarets...