Word: grapes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other hand, news is being smuggled out of occupied Europe with an extraordinary regularity and completeness, he declared, stating that New York was one of the best source for such grape-vine information...
Kentucky is the only place on earth where you can see a whole fambly out under the grape arbor oiling up Whinchester rifles and curseing the fambly over on the next creek. Free fights and free profanity may be too much for weak Yankee stomachs. But in a land where famblies are large and funerals are cheap, a few green graves on a green bleugrass hillside is a small price to pay for a virilness that Yankees use to have but have...
...radios dead, very high, navigating by stars, by instruments, or by Oriental divining. They have carried over 2,000 passengers a year, over 1,000,000 Lb. of mail and cargo- ranging from new breech blocks for Chung-king's anti-aircraft guns to jars of American grape jelly for Madame Chiang Kaishek's table...
...bright Dr. Jekyll decides to put all his evils in one basket by swallowing the laboratory brew which turns him into the dreadful Mr. Hyde, the result is not horrifying. It is laughable when he addresses his captured barmaid (Ingrid Bergman) as "my tired fungus"; revolting when he spits grape skins in her pretty face; hammy when he chuckles fiendish "Heh, heh, hehs" at his lecherous face in the mirror...
...Liquor and Yellow Chartreuse, for instance-he can speak of life as a bee might speak of its hive. He can also give masterly expression to his generally impeccable distastes, as in his Lines on Anyone's Lines along Certain Lines: Is this the shape Of the sour grape? Perhaps the most uncommonly good poems in And What's More are a half-dozen among a group about a baby...