Word: vineyard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the record grafter of the of the entire Soviet Union has just been caught in Georgia were hailed with suppressed excitement last week. In Stalin's good graces, the No. 1 Grafter, whose name was not revealed, was a Communist Party member and director of a Georgian State vineyard. In four years he embezzled 500,000 rubles, lived in the luxury of an Asiatic Prince, and according to the Moscow press "actually called himself the 'Heir of the Mingrelian Princes,' the hereditary rulers of Georgia...
...bald head over a bouquet of yellow roses. What moved Dr. Christian Fichthorne Reisner to tears was the presence of 1,200 pious people in his Broadway Temple (Methodist) to celebrate the beginning of the 25th year of his work in the Manhattan corner of the Lord's vineyard. For three and one-half hours they listened to songs and praiseful speeches by churchmen, municipal officials, businessmen, Kiwanians. Said New York's District Attorney William C. Dodge, who worships at Broadway Temple: "I am going to God through Christian F. Reisner." Said Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia: "Whenever...
When a young Paul is found today, he is made aware that he may look forward some day to being subordinate in the Lord's foreign vineyard to a native yellow, brown or black man, for "the day of the missionary 'boss' is past." Thoughtfully must a young Paul weigh the Laymen's Inquiry's words: "The period upon which the missionary enterprise is entering will test the patience, the consecration and the qualities of leadership of the missionaries in the field. Only a high order of administrative statesmanship can guide the missionary movement...
...liquor imports, which amounted to $17,000,000 annually. Even a big importer thought himself lucky if he cleared $250,000. But in the last half year more than 100 new firms have mushroomed-many with no more than an agreement to handle the output of an obscure Alsatian vineyard. An importer requires little capital but, to be successful, long steeping in the lore of liquor...
...sounding trumpets and falling walls. There is an intolerable dearth of succulent revelations and fat, juicy accusation, of harrowing, sordid, revolting, delightful delineation of sin and portraits of the vicious, shameless, guilt and scarlet sinners. There is a lack of pleasant self-righteous indictment done in the Lord's vineyard...