Word: prunes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Take care of the garden, rake grass, prune trees...
...Estancia was originally acquired as an escape from devoted readers who "just couldn't go home without seeing Kathleen Norris." It is a rambling, comfortable house with 14 small guest cabins by a ravine, 14 acres of decorative prune trees, broad lawns, flowers, a swimming pool, a theatre with a 7-foot stage for family theatricals, loud speakers by both croquet court and pool. The ranch is under the special care of "Ceegee," who does the hiring, firing and ordering. Of a week-end there will be from ten to 25 guests at La Estancia. Harpo Marx came...
...elective system which soon threatened the liberality of its standards in an avalanche of vocational courses, and in the graduation of men whose college career became a very limited and illiberal thing. To this Mr. Lowell became heir in 1909; from the first he announced his intention to prune the excesses of the elective system, to set up requirements of concentration and distribution which should be correlated by tutors, and capped by a general examination. The solution was the British one; soon it became obvious that the college must be broken up into smaller and more manageable units, that...
...adults, five children, ten servants) its model for large families. Mrs. Roosevelt, who turned over to her daughter when she married the account books she kept as a bride, has always been a shrewd Hooverizer. She believes in such sustaining but economical standbys as baked beans, meat loaf, prune pudding and oatmeal. Last spring she entertained Mrs. Vincent Astor and some other ladies with a White House luncheon of which the main course was a soup made of spinach, dandelion greens and bacon grease-a dish reputedly in great favor with Andrew Jackson. She asked her guests afterwards if they...
...troops with aplomb from the depths of his armored car. Perhaps the most discouraging detail of the whole mess is that there seems so little to choose between Grau San Martin, the present dictator, and the A.B.C.'s candidate, Signor Cespedes, than whom no man more resembles a desiccated prune. The other fracas which cropped up recently was the neat assassination of King Nadir Shah of the Afghans at Kabul, the capital of that peculiar nation. Though in natural sympathy with all monarchs who leave their thrones in such precipitous manner, one's grief is slightly lessened for this great...