Word: fruitful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Steig's latest humorous accomplishments: 14 small, irresistible figures carved in mahogany, walnut, orange, pear and apple wood. He began doing them three years ago when he married and moved out to live in the country in Sherman, Conn. He and his brother, Henry Anton Steig, pruned their fruit trees, stacked the dead wood in a shed. One day William picked up a chunk and whittled it. Thereafter all male carvings were known in the family as Jason, female carvings as Tessie...
...Saturdays, when more clients come to town, two colored moppets in livery greet them at the front door, usher them into a lobby glad with music and flowers and the trilling of canaries. Christmas and holidays the bank keeps open house, with fruit cake, soft drinks and wine for all comers. Last year the bank gave away 20,000 gladiolus bulbs from its own nursery...
Sulfapyridine is made in 0.5-gram, yellowish-white tablets, which can be crushed in milk or fruit juices and given in small doses every few hours. Within 24 hours after the first dose, patients usually show remarkable improvement. Sometimes the drug produces nausea, vomiting or severe headache. In other cases, sulfapyridine, like sulfanilamide, may produce a dangerous decrease in the number of red blood corpuscles. Hence, it is necessary for physicians to take daily blood counts of their pneumonia patients, and give them blood transfusions if the action of sulfapyridine becomes toxic...
...fact that it was sung in Italian, it would doubtless have pleased hard-drinking neurotic Modeste Moussorgsky, who, when he wrote the opera in 1873, attempted to make the People the protagonist, gave the chorus a great "Revolutionary Scene," in which he planted ideas which did not come to fruit in Russia until 1917. This scene, which ends with a song sung by an idiot (signifying plenty), underscores its point, as the curtain falls, with red fire in Russia's sky in the backdrop...
...Howard Cadle claims that in 1914 he was saved from a gambler's and drunkard's grave by his mother's prayers. Successful thereafter as an automobile salesman (they called him "Car-a-Day" Cadle), owner of a chain of shoe-repairing shops and fruit juice stands in Indianapolis, he got more pious all the time. In 1921 he built Cadle Tabernacle, a large Spanish-style building, in which he took to preaching...