Word: pruning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Santa Ana, Calif., Sheriff Jesse Elliott described the aftermath of a county jailbirds' party featuring fermented prune and peach juice: "Colossal hangovers, loss of good behavior ratings, and social ostracism at the hands of other prisoners...
Enid Starkie has tried to separate some of the sheepish facts from the goatish fictions, to lift some of the fogs, prune some of the poison ivy out of the laurels. With unhurried, neutral efficiency she shows how this sensitive son of an army captain and a penny-pinching peasant became first a debauched child poet, then a "wild boy" whose Russia was all Europe, then a castaway...
...Hartford, Conn., the House of Representatives took a vote on confirming seven nominations. When the ballot box was opened, among the ballots were found one penny, one stewed prune...
Other U. S. Bowl games scheduled for New Year's week: Sun Bowl at El Paso, Prune Bowl at San Jose, Calif., Dixie Bowl at Atlanta, Peach Bowl (for Negroes) at Atlanta, Coal Bowl at Charleston, W. Va., Finger Bowl (between two six-man football teams) at Ennis, Texas...
...before the government creates any new additions to the administrative tree, it would do well to prune off the already dead limbs. President Roosevelt's reorganization bill last year was killed not because of any flaw in the bill itself but because an unjustly irate nation sought to render a personal rebuke to the President. An intelligently-drafted bill on the same order, if quietly presented, despite the more moderate Congress, might very well be passed, and with executive reorganization it is probable that many of the proposed bureaus would be unnecessary. Rather than build onto an already-tottering executive...