Word: grapes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good whiskey "implies good taste all along the line." Said he: "An educated man-a judge of good whiskey-will realize the abysmal gap between swinish drunkenness and that mellowness and expansion of personality which the wise men of the ages have appreciated as the gift of the grape...
When, on Sunday, Mr. Mclntire handed out communion grape-juice in paper cups, communion bread on paper pie plates, 1,223 people filled his tent to eat the Lord's Supper. Attendance in Collingswood Church...
Echoed and re-echoed throughout the Cantos are two ancient legends-the Homeric tale of Odysseus' journey through Hades, the Ovidian tale of the seamen who, while kidnapping Bacchus, were transformed to dolphins as their ship, becalmed, sprouted grape-laden vines. The legends appear indiscriminately in ancient. Renaissance and modern dress, according to whichever time or whatever place Poet Pound's eruditely literate, expatriated sensibilities lead him to be thinking about. The resultant confusion is only skin-deep -since to any man, anywhere, any time, life may seem like Hell; and some sea-change in men or matter...
...textures ever made. A bubbling, generous, rather boyish man. Edward Steichen had no great struggle with himself over going commercial. Besides his job with Conde Nast he contracted to do advertising photographs exclusively for J. Walter Thompson Co. (agency for Pond's Cold Cream, Welch's Grape Juice. Simmons Mattresses, Jergens Lotion...
...accused of plagiarizing French wine names he claims indignantly that Burgundy is as much a descriptive word as whiskey. He also enjoys pointing out that when the disease Phylloxera virtually wiped out European vineyards between 1870 and 1880, the only thing that saved them was grafting European grape vines on the root stock of the wild vine of California...