Word: fruit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three hundred years ago in crowded London slums, hungry bellies ached, loaves of black bread were stolen. Next morning the gallows tree bore fresh fruit of petty thieves; punishment was quick, certain, cruel. Crime did not abate...
...honor and responsibility he has shown a complete understanding of the essentials of our Government and has rendered some notable and far-reaching decisions. He believes in the liberty of the individual, understanding that liberty to mean his inherent right to enjoy what he has acquired by the fruit of his labor, and holds that the roadway to the development of a great people lies in letting each citizen progress as far as his energy and merit will carry...
Fifty Manhattan Roman Catholics climbed about a United Fruit steamer in New York Harbor last week and kissed an amethyst ring. It was on the thick powerful finger* of a medium-sized cask of a man, whom two Mexican "very, very courteous" police sergeants a month ago had escorted out of Mexico, over the Guatemala border?Pasquale Diaz, Bishop of Tabasco, now exile. Newspapermen marveled at how, in the serenity of Catholic priesthood, this man's face had acquired its strained lines of truculence, combat and domination. He is a Jalisco Indian, born 1876 in Guadaljara, Mexico; trained by Jesuits...
...philosopher looking for tendencies of thought and modern ideals may see in much of modern biography the fruit of the democratic idea, that all men are created squal. Since all men are not equally good, they must be equally bad. The more practically minded may point out merely that historical scandal-mongering is a profitable business, without the dangers attendant upon libelling the living...
...Most of whom are illiterate Indians and Negroes. There are some 25 U. S. companies (fruit, mahogany, gold mining) having properties in Nicaragua. None compare with the vast U. S. properties in Mexico...