Word: grapes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...medicine dropper, eyebrow brush, eyebrow pencil, screw driver, paintbrush, pencil, three-bladed manicure tool and crochet needle. She showed how a man could make a fairly complete toilet without putting anything down or picking anything up, predicted that Fingertip-equipped housewives would find it easier to peel oranges, pit grape fruit, scrape pans. Motion pictures showed how the devices were used for drawing, painting, etching, needlework...
Since matronly Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands and her massive daughter Crown Princess Juliana still uphold standards once upheld in England by King George, deep was the resentment of Dutchmen last week as some British journals printed sour-grape stories striving to make it appear that Juliana is some what the same kind of person as Edward VIII...
Rosemary discipline is strict. One girl was expelled for smuggling in and eating a five-pound box of chocolates. Another ate a single grape after hours and wrote a conscience-stricken note to Miss Ruutz-Rees, thereby losing permission to attend her Rosemary Feast that year...
...DeMille's Cleopatra. Since 1932 Chief Loane West has built up a profitable sideline of giving lectures at $25 apiece on "Indian health methods," consisting of simple living, daily exercises, rough foods. He recommends one cigar in three months, Mojave tea with red honey, raw eggs in grape juice. When he took five reels of photographs of Indian tribal ceremonies in the Hollywood Bowl, William Loane West, whose two grandfathers were full blooded Indians, became an "honorary" chief. From his platform profits he has not only earned enough to re-enter California as a junior, but also...
Shortly afterward, despite his absence from the life class, he won a $500 traveling scholarship. Wandering into the Sainte Chapelle in Paris just as the sunset struck its windows, Student Saint was overwhelmed by the "solid walls of jewel-like color - rubies, sapphires, golds, topaz tints, amethysts, Tokay grape shades and whites like old lace." His interest solidly caught in this religious art, Lawrence Saint lost no time in becoming an expert on stained glass, made 50 notable illustrations for the famed Stained Glass of the Middle Ages in England and France by English Expert Hugh Arnold...