Word: seeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vulture, the Crow, and the Raven, heirs apparent before Mosca has finished his work, are all carefully done, and rather better than either of the two feminine leads, Canina, using Blanca's method in man-hunting, has barren ground for her seed in Mosca and Volpone, but her acting lifts when she finds Carbaccio more amorously accessible. Philip Leigh, the Vulture, managed his voice as well as usual, but had a crutch, a limp, and a hunch to his black and cloaked back, just when it was hoped that the stage, at least, had seen the last of Mr. Chaney...
...Government to go to Moscow and found a school of the dance. Moscow palled before long and Dancer Duncan returned to France where in 1927 she died, strangely strangled by one of her own scarfs when it caught in a wheel of her motor car.* Back in Moscow, the seed she had planted took root, flourished. Irma Duncan, an adopted daughter, had stayed to spread the gospel and teach children, just as the Great Isadora had taught her, to know music and translate it freely into bodily movement. Last week with twelve best pupils Dancer Irma arrived in Manhattan...
...seed 'er first a-smokin', and a-lougin' languidly...
...that it did not seek the attention of those satisfied with "the Apostles or the Nicene Creed, the inerrancy of the Bible, the virgin birth of Jesus, and the verity of the miracle stories of the old and new Testament." God goes by many another name among Quakers: "the Seed, the Inner Light, the In-speaking Voice, the Christ within, the Word . . . The Hidden Dynamo, The Super-self, The World-father." And "religion as we understand it has nothing to fear from science...
Pepper, a seed, is picked from a 40-foot vine, growing up the trunk of a tree, or around a low hut. There are two seasons, two sources. From Telok Belong in Dutch East India are harvested each July between 10.000 and 24,000 tons of pepper seeds known as Lampong. Alleppy and Tellicherry pepper comes from India and is harvested in December. Before they are used for seasoning, the seeds are ground, packed in tin boxes, and given a label. But whether Lampong, Alleppy or Tellicherry vines bore it, whether bought in an exclusive delicatessen shop...