Word: prunes
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...Butler is a gentle, observing, whimsical soul who has taken to literature for the same reason people take to playing the base viol. In creating, and he sometimes does, the atmosphere of trot fishing, poker playing, whimsy, he amuses. But the amusement has the solidity and permanence of prune whip. Also one always realizes that prunes are the basic element in the concoction...
...have even dubbed him the arch plotter of the World War.† There is no question that it was he, as Premier (1922-24), who sent French troops to occupy the Ruhr. Yet last week M. Poincare, once again created Premier (TIME, Aug. 2), began to clip and prune the French Army, in the interest of national economy to save the franc...
Poet Vachel Lindsay, who has hymned many cities, played up the prosy aspect of "this Buffalo, this recreant town," to get a contrast for the "deathless glory" of nearby Niagara Falls. He reported "sharps and lawyers, prune and tame; Jew pioneers in Buffalo"; and journalists "sick...
...turned his back upon the girl and went to California, where he hired himself out to farmers until able to acquire land of his own at Santa Rosa. In 1881, his small nursery business leapt to great proportions when a banker asked, in the spring, to have 20,000 prune trees for fall planting. Young Burbank bought almond seeds, sprouted them, grafted prune buds to the sprouts and delivered 20,000 prune shoots for the banker's fall planting - thus fulfilling an unprecedented order that other gardeners of the day would have called impossible...
...watched his Finance Minister, M. Doumer, take this rattlebrained bill to the Senate. Admittedly it was almost worthless. M. Doumer's experts opined that it might produce 2½ billion francs of added revenue, whereas at least 5 billions are necessary. The Senate Finance Committee's first act was to prune away some of its notorious "spoof" clauses (TIME, Feb. 15), mere legislative "nifties"?? not worthy of the Senators' laughter. The general impression was that the bill could scarcely be worse. But it was at least a bill! It was, in fact, a great triumph for M. Briand...