Word: vineyard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Haven, Conn., June 15. Bayes Marshal Norton of Vineyard Haven, Mass., was elected captain of the Yale track team this afternoon. Norton prepared at Exeter and was high point scorer in the meet this afternoon
THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED ?The vineyards and the sunshine of California robbed of their sweetness and their light by a wayward wench from San Francisco who marries the master of the vineyard by mail...
...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 was a clerk in the treasurer's office in Florence and accompanied his friend Mazzei as a social equal to Virginia. Mazzei...
...marries by mail and arrives at the vineyard farm in California to find that her prospective husband, an old Italian, has tricked her by sending in place of his own, the photograph of his youthful, wayward, farm hand. The deception discovered, she concludes that even old Tony is preferable to the spaghettied dreariness of her 'Frisco job. Tony breaks both his legs just before the wedding and three months pass. The girl is with child by the farm hand Joe. In a severe and somewhat artificial climax Tony, whom she has mean while come to love, retains...
...Bennett's portrait of the voluble old vineyard-keeper is technically adept, artful in appearance, but often lacking in absolute conviction. Glenn Anders does incomparably the best work of his career as the farm hand. The remainder of the production is managed with the usual surety and vigor of the Theatre Guild...