Word: fruit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...browbeating so pitiable and so pitiless? Can such cowardly disrespect be matched in the annals of treaty-making nations?" On the other side President Roosevelt's patience was severely taxed and he had seen a half a century's dillydallying over the Panama question bring forth no fruit. He himself once said that one might as well "try to nail jelly to a wall" as to try and negotiate with Colombia. The President did not foster the revolt, but he sympathized with it and helped it after it had broken out. From a utilitarian viewpoint, if from...
More than a decade later Mr. Page's idea bore fruit...
...nourished a life which knows the frugality, the industry, the treasuring of every opportunity for selfhelp, the pursuit of knowledge despite all difficulties, the fine aspirations and patriotic ideals of what we take delight in regarding as the typical American home. The old tree is still bearing the finest fruit. President Coolidge is his own platform. . . . No other platform is needed. ... It is the unexpected that happens to Presidents as to others. For this reason, character is more important than declarations. Today, there is no occasion for experiment, no reason for uncertainty. The best assurance of the future...
WANDERING STARS?Clemence Dane ?Macmillan ($2.25). An eerie, poignant fantasy of people within people, innermost selves. In the story of Damaris Payne, whose eyes came to be "trees without fruit, wells without water, wandering stars,"; Miss Dane has dipped her pen in moonlight and drawn the grotesque and lovely shadows of human souls...
Luscious verbiage, hanging from heavily laden political boughs, began to fall into the inviting laps of stalwart citizens. The harvest season of election was not yet at hand, but the overburdened limb of speech no longer could sustain its fruit...