Word: vineyard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chose for his first move against Germany's "impregnable" Westwall (or Limes Line*) was the 100-mi, stretch from Lauterbourg on the Rhine, northwest to the Moselle River (see map). Here the German border and the Westwall guarding it depart from the Rhine, to run across hilly vineyard and forest country. To break through the Wall here does not involve the added difficulty of crossing the Rhine. And neutral Luxembourg guards the French left flank. Last week the lower reaches of the Maginot Line and Westwall, facing each other across the Rhine from Lauterbourg south to the Swiss border...
...writing on the wall" was never plainer than at present, that the only solution to the world-wide mess is applied Christianity. Jesus did not establish dogmas nor creeds, but an example for living. We have wandered far afield and naturally suffer proportionately. MARGARET KEEN BUTCHER Vineyard Haven, Mass...
...with her son, a son in love with the father's mistress, and a maiden aunt in love with the father. Spring, a week late, hit Paris with an intoxicating sequence of superb days. Out in the country, wheat, barley and oats looked good; the 1,500,000 vineyard owners had their spring shoots in the ground; fishermen were beginning to pull in their annual 5,000 tons of fish from France's inland waters. In Brittany it is the time for spring pardons-the old, unique, Breton folk custom that permits the peasant to approach the Deity...
...favorite among Eastern Seaboarders is the majestic striped bass, caught either by casting or trolling-anywhere from the Carolinas to Martha's Vineyard. World's record for striped bass: 73 Ibs., set at Vineyard Sound 26 years...
...their news is ably written but editorials are either purely boosterish, overly timid or entirely lacking; 4) many a muted Walter Winchell is doing a bangup job of columning for a few hundred neighbors. Exciting examples: Joseph Chase Allen's "With The Fishermen" in the Martha's Vineyard Gazette (tangy dockside gossip about a picturesque industry); Douglas Meador's "Trail Dust" in his Matador, Tex., Tribune (sentimental homilies on the old Southwest) ; "The Pole Cat Editor" of the Sikeston, Mo. Standard...