Word: fruit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...customs inspectors: "Gentlemen, here are my keys if you care to go through my effects. I assure you I have no forbidden fruit...
...fruit of the meditations of a whole lifetime." With these words M. Georges Clemenceau describes the three-volume philosophical work which he has just completed. The appearance of this book, which is not expected until ten years after the death of M. Clemenceau, will be eagerly expected by all who love to pry into the minds of great men, but they are likely to be disappointed...
...they are not definitely connected with human events. Men study the writings of great figures in history chiefly to gain the man's opinion of the events in which he figured, not to be regaled by philosophical abstractions. When a man passes eighty years, as M. Clemenceau has, the fruit of his abstract meditations is more than likely to be over-ripe...
...news story headed "Grads Rap Harvard for Baker Loss." If the alumni will ony look into the facts before throwing brickbats, if they will only make their proposals logical, good-humored, and constructive the present criticism will be positively helpful rather than harmful. Already, it is bearing fruit in the insistence of the Overseers Committee on English that some sort of week in dramatic composition be continued despite Professor Baker's departure. Harvard makes its biggest gains in an atmosphere of free discussion, and that it is certainly getting now. As a member of one of the governing boards said...
Millionaire Bernarr Macfadden, publisher of twelve magazines? and of the New York Evening Graphic, gum-chewers' supreme-de-fruit, watches as a zoo-man watches his charges that hydra-headed amphibian, the Public. He knows the meat upon which this beast and upon which he, Macfadden, may grow great together. Hence, when he saw people everywhere, in lowly hovels, in the great homes which he himself frequents, racking their brains over small squares of paper charted in black and white squares which gaped to be filled in, horizontally and vertically, with words of Egyptian, European and native derivation...