Word: vine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Society moved northward. Theatres were built nearby. Mrs. John Jacob Astor became a communicant of the Church of the Transfiguration, gave a fine pair of gas-brackets. Additions were built on the low. brownstone building; its rambling appearance earned it the name of the Church of the Holy Cucumber Vine...
Section 29 of the Volstead Act was the farmer's price for supporting Prohibition. Under that clause he was permitted to continue making his own applejack or blackberry wine on the legal fiction that it was a non-intoxicating fruit-juice for home consumption. Soon shrewd vine-yardists seized upon Section 29 to supply the wine wants of city folk. Virginia Dare Vineyards, Inc. promised to ship a grape juice that would ferment into champagne in the home and thus be quite legal (TIME, Aug. 6, 1928). Seeking new markets for their grapes, seven California co-operatives...
...flourishing business of urban wine-making in the home. Karl Offer, national manager of Vino Sano, wired Attorney General Mitchell from California that he alone was responsible for the wine bricks and wanted to be included in any forthcoming indictments. He also sought the legal assistance of Mrs. Willebrandt, Vine-Glo's counsel, in working up a defense for his employes, but that lady enigmatically replied: "Sorry, but I never take Prohibition cases...
...vigor of the well worn pens of Harvard CRIMSON editors, undergraduates are launching a bitter tirade against the building of a new chapel to replace the vine-covered and consecrated Appleton Chapel which has stood in the Yard for long decades. More than ten days ago University officials announced the sage idea of erecting a new church as a memorial to Harvard's war heroes...
...driven from their kill by a famine-stricken cast. Serpents lazily uncoil from a most tropical-looking tree, and plop down a scant foot or so behind the ragged hero. Horn and his gun-bearer, Renchero, swing deftly over a pool alive with crocodiles, on a dangling vine. "And through this mighty drama of a primitive world runs the beautiful love romance of a boy and girl that grips the heart"--so runs the come-hither phraseology of the advertising manager...