Word: vining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten were happily assured a place they could call their own after their marriage in November. Father gave her a nice country home, Sunninghill Park, a vine-covered nest of 25 rooms, set in 300 acres near Windsor Castle...
...count before love. . . . You'll never be richer or freer than in divesting yourselves of your selves. If you give only half your life, the other half will be resentful and its reproaches will rob you of joy. . . . Why worry about those who consume us? The vine and the corn do not refuse themselves to the unworthy. . . . Be a sacrifice in the universal sacrifice . . . come to Love . . . Love is strong enough to save the world...
...voted overwhelmingly to support the bill. An RKO-Pathe documentary movie short called "Passport to Nowhere" made a first-run appearance with a plea for U.S. compassion toward European refugees. But immigration sensitive Congressmen preferred to sidestep such a politically explosive issue. The Stratton bill was dying on the vine...
...fortnight with no more warning than a tropical thunderstorm. Overnight, apparently from nowhere, the myriads of mice appeared. Too weak from hunger to walk, they crawled across fields and into houses, nesting in coat pockets and automobile cushions, devouring everything in sight, from kapok mattresses to sultanas on the vine. When nothing else could be found, the mice ate each other or nibbled at sleeping farmers. In desperation the farmers tied strings around the bottoms of their trousers...
Change the boards of the symphony into young, active organizations, not figureheads of the diamond horseshoe. Let New York ponder the fact that the Detroit Symphony, withered on the vine four years ago, will pay for itself this season with radio programs, recordings, concerts and moneys from rental of the Music Hall, our permanent home. Culture must be put on a businesslike basis before it can stand on its own. ... If singing jingles can pay for themselves, so can Brahms, Beethoven and Bach...