Word: grapes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mediaeval monks possessed all the knowledge of their day; yet the conviction is now widespread that their's was a terribly warped and limited existence, and not a pattern to be copied. It would be a mistake to attribute too much sour-grape sentiment to the average undergraduate who refuses to do obeisance to a pure "Rank List" ideal. The ideal college man is an earnest student--but he is more than that. He would be a man--full and complete man--but the "Rank List" ideal too often produces only partial men, great heads on puny bodies, mere walking...
That Dr. Bellini was a man of learning and attainments is obvious enough in that he was appointed Professor of Modern Languages at the College of William and Mary. That a man should at one time or another have tended grape vines is no cause for his friends to be ashamed. The popular Abel was a stockbreeder; Abraham Lincoln functioned as ploughman; King David tended sheep-as did Ramsay Mac-Donald; Cincinnatus was twice called from the plough to the Dictatorship of -and twice returned to it; Rousseau was a son of a humble Geneva watchmaker; the famed Dr. Johnson...
THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED -The Italian grape-grower of California who summons by mail a wife to grace his rural opulence. But he had white hair, while his hired man was young and handsome. Pauline Lord obliges with the greatest performance of the season...
...table, laid it down. In the pocket of Bishop Grose ticked the timepiece of the late James W. Bashford,* Bishop of Peking, who put Methodism on the Oriental side of the map. That, too, went on the table. It was a good idea. C. E. Welch,† grape juice man, took his watch to the table. He was followed by a Vice President of the Pennsylvania R. R., A. M. Shoyer; by a lawyer, W. H. Van Benschoten; by a glovemaker, W. J. Stitt; by other Bishops, Lowe and Badley. Announcement of this watch-giving was sent to all Methodism...
...Charles Edgar Welch. Born Watertown, N. Y., 1852. Public School Education. Practising and manufacturing dentist with his father, 1877-1886. Grape juice man since 1869 at Vineland, N. J. Nominated by the Prohibition Party in 1914 and 1916 for Governor of New York; withdrew in 1914 in favor of Democrat Sulzer and ran for Lieutenant Governor. Defeated both times...