Word: grapes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were blessed by the pastor, Edwin Keigwin.† The invisible audience did not partake until all had been served, so that all present in the church might partake simultaneously with those who served themselves bread and wine at home. While the elements were passed, the organ was audibly played. Grape juice and unleavened bread were used in the church. Dr. Keigwin advised radio communicants to use ordinary bread and wine, if available. Said Arthur Brisbane, Hearst editor (himself no respecter of tradition) : "In the old days you got out the children's rubbers and umbrellas, and lighted the stable...
...Congressional biography that his father, grandfather, great uncle, great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather, were all at various times Senators from Delaware. Mr. Bayard is to speak. So is John Philip Hill, Representative from Maryland, who last Summer dared Prohibition Commissioner Haynes to arrest him for making grape juice in his cellar...
...Premier recovered in so far as he was able to sit up and toy with half a grape fruit. The paralysis has entirely left his throat, leaving his power of speech free. His words were: " So this is Russia...
...stage, where an unseen window admits a flood of sunset light at the end of Act 1. The end of a table covered with white cloth appears between the back wall of the stoop and the house. A large window in the back wall of the stoop reveals a grape-vine trellis in the yard, with the Catskills beyond. A broad open door at right and back of the room shows a path leading off to the right. The right hand wall is broken by a short broad window upon the lowered shutter of which the farmer's wife suns...
...appropriate Sunday news-item, one of those useful bits of "grape-vine erudition" that serve to fill in odd corners of metropolitan dailies, declares that "more than 35,000,000 Bibles are printed annually." In the same edition appear several columns of the Grant-Manning controversy, which raises a double query in regard to the status of religion. Of these Bibles, eight million are printed in the United States and Canada; and it is estimated that if all those turned out in the last century were evenly distributed, there would be at least two for every family in the country...