Word: fruit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Provided, That from and after the passage of this act any beverage obtained by the alcoholic fermentation of an infusion or decoction of barley, malt, cereals and hops in drinkable water or by the natural fermentation of apple or other fruit, vegetable or herb juices containing not more than 2.75 per centum* of alcohol by volume may be manufactured, sold or transported for sale in original packages for consumption in homes and places other than the place of sale...
...changing his mind and swerving towards Kirkland Street instead of Cambridge Street, the driver of a truck loaded with crates of oranges held up traffic yesterday afternoon, by littering the street with the contents of one of the crates. Impatient motorists waited while the driver hurriedly collected the elusive fruit in a new wash boiler, but John Harvard, who watched the whole procedure, never winked an eyelash...
...visited me at my Palm Beach home. Later he wrote as follows: 'To W. R. Hearst and his other visitor Mr. Bryan gave one large cocoanut, much bigger than his head; one grapefruit, almost as 'big as his head, both from his own trees. He has seven kinds of fruit on the place, including oranges and lemons, also alligator pears and guava...
...warned the British proletariat that the Bolshevik Tree cannot yield good proletarian fruit until the capitalists are ousted from power. It demanded mass meetings to demonstrate in favor of the complete independence of Ireland, India, Egypt, credits for Russian nationalization of railways and mines, relief of unemployment, labor control of all sources of wealth, scrapping of the Versailles Treaty, abolition of armament...
...Chesterton: "Peggy O'Neil, American actress, wrote a letter to a London newspaper asserting that the Englishman's breakfast of bacon and eggs reduces the originality of his outlook. She pleaded for more fruit. Said I: 'If there is anything to justify armed assault on the United States it is their attempt to introduce iced water and fresh fruit in bulk to the English breakfast table...