Word: orchard
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...Here was the real thing," trumpeted the Daily Telegraph. "Great -and no perhaps about it," cried the News Chronicle. Despite preshow misgivings that Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard might be axed by Lenin rather than Lopakhin, London's critics cheered last week for the famed Moscow Art Theater, in its first appearance this side of the Iron Curtain since before World...
...their horsemen gallop up and down; the arms of eighteen thousand men, barrel and bayonet, gleam in the sun, a sloping forest of flashing steel. Right on they move, as with one soul, in perfect order, without impediment of ditch, or wall or stream, over ridge and slope, through orchard and meadow, and cornfield, magnificent, grim, irresistible...
...been introduced to. "You're Robbert Harley Hedges, aren't you?" Actor Hedges (Herbert Marshall) achieves a smile. "I've played them all," she airily lets him know, as one trouper to another. "Nora in The Doll's House, Madame Ranevsky in The Cherry Orchard" He: "Where was all this?" She: "With the Mummers in Ordway, Vermont...
...considered that hardly adequate for a stretch of choice land. In the Los Angeles suburb of Westchester, Aircraft Mechanic Roger Ransom will probably lose the back tenth of his lot to the San Diego Freeway. He has been offered $900, considers that hardly adequate for the spot where his orchard was going to grow. Some 15 miles west of Santa Rosa, N.Mex., on widening Highway 66, Moises Lucero lost the bar, gas station and dance-hall which he bought seven years ago with his life savings as a ranch hand. Small Businessman Lucero demanded $60,000, got $40,000, laments...
...fortunes were depleted when, at 15, he took over his father's down-and-out Winchester Star, worked part-time as a telephone operator to buy newsprint-which he paid for on a day-to-day basis. The paper prospered and, with its earnings, Byrd leased an apple orchard. He now owns about 7,000 acres and is the world's largest individual apple grower...