Word: vine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They recognized that "the Black Hand," a baffling recurrent vine disease, has again touched with death the seemingly healthy grape-globes. The harvest, it is saul, will be burned. With bitterness the proprietors have noted that the coming of the pest has, as usual, been ironically concurrent with a bumper wheat crop in Europe. Scientists, vainly laboring in the vintners' laboratories at Rheims, are forced to admit once more that the ultimate riddle of champagne has not been solved...
THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED-Pauline Lord still giving the best performance in town as the scrubby San Francisco waitress who married by mail an old Italian vine-grower...
...airs and revelry, under boughs that let fall their petals like odorous snows, Jonah and Judith walked together; and the gaunt prophet, friend of foxes, trembled with love for the pale daughter of a Prince. She, also moved by love, was kind to him; they kissed under a jasmine vine. "I should like to be poor like you," she said. All night, all night, when she was gone, Jonah wandered through the orchards of Zebulon, mad with happiness. In the morning, he sent his mother to ask for Judith's hand, went himself to find work that he might...
...Hill" ivy plant, grown from a slip of the original vine which grew at Charles Dickens' home at Gad's Hill Place, Rochester, England, has been added to the Dickens exhibition in the Treasure Room of Widener Library. This plant was loaned by Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Ridgeway of the Dickens Fellowship of Boston in commemoration of Dickens birthday which is today...
...York, N. Y. Gentlemen: In your issue of Dec. 1, you have a disparaging reference to Charles Bellini, the first professor of modern languages in the College of William and Mary. The writer of the item gives the impression that Bellini was one of the vine dressers who accompanied Mazzei, under Jefferson's encouragement, to Albemarle County, Virginia, in 1775; and that after his failure to develop a successful vineyard, Jefferson raised him from the rank of laborer in a vineyard to the position of professor of modern languages in the college of William and Mary. Carlo Bellini...