Word: vineyard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...less of him now than their predecessors did-and his grandchildren, who call him "Boo." He was an English professor at Williams College when he was hired for Exeter; but at Exeter he teaches no classes. He is casual, pleasant, hearty, but no backslapper. Summers at Martha's Vineyard he conducts secular Sunday services, reading favorite passages from Tom Sawyer...
...Shakespeare and the Bible. "Part and parcel of a lawyer's expression of his ideas and arguments. . . . Judicial opinions frequently contain allusions . . . which a lawyer ought to grasp readily, like 'Naboth's vineyard' and 'the pound of flesh...
Charles A. Lindbergh, who likes to live alone and finds living on an island the best way, bought land on four islands off the Connecticut shore, near Darien. Conn. Former Lindbergh island homes: one off Brittany's coast, another off Massachusetts (Martha's Vineyard). Included: 36-acres of oyster-beds...
...phlegmatic German peasants, Peasant Rapp was a mystic with a sound business head. In 1804 he brought his peo ple to the U.S. ''not because he believed that God's voice would speak out of the marsh more clearly than it had spoken out of the vineyard in Wiirttemberg - but be cause the land was fierce and cheap." Celibate Communists. Settling in Har mony, Pennsylvania, his harsh, puritanical doctrines and iron discipline turned the religious zeal of his "spiritual communists" to good account. Within a year his colony of 60 log cabins had become a thriving community...
Nestling in the famed vineyard country of the Moselle Valley, Trier is the sort of town that tourists call "picturesque." It is an even more ancient town than Aachen,* the seat of Charlemagne; it is, in fact, the oldest town in Germany...