Word: pruning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...volumes of "La Caricature" contain many lithographs by Daumier, including some of his most famous, as "Mr. Prune" and "Mr. Guiz", as well as the work by his contemporaries. There is also a useful addition in a complete set of Turner's "Liber Studiorum...
...present Mme. Pilsudska dwells principally at rural Sulejowek, 12 miles from Warsaw, where she provides a quiet soothing refuge to which her harassed and moody husband often flees. With her young daughters, Wanda and Hedwig, she assists the Marshal to prune his apple trees and tend his bees...
...church members (Congregationalists have a "follow up" system to keep account of itinerant members); the War, "with its profound political, social and industrial disturbances"; materialism, "which has brought indifference, neglect and disregard of religious obligation to the very altars of the church"; organization assessments, which induce individual congregations to prune the "inactive" membership rolls (they are taxed according to the size of their rosters...
...Butler is a gentle, observing, whimsical soul who has taken to literature for the same reason people take to playing the base viol. In creating, and he sometimes does, the atmosphere of trot fishing, poker playing, whimsy, he amuses. But the amusement has the solidity and permanence of prune whip. Also one always realizes that prunes are the basic element in the concoction...
...have even dubbed him the arch plotter of the World War.† There is no question that it was he, as Premier (1922-24), who sent French troops to occupy the Ruhr. Yet last week M. Poincare, once again created Premier (TIME, Aug. 2), began to clip and prune the French Army, in the interest of national economy to save the franc...