Word: pruning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hostile Senate and a suspicious House gang up on the two agencies, the direct and indirect losses cannot be quickly or easily recouped. It is difficult to resist the urge to prune a group whose members do not vote, but it may be wise to remember that NYA and CCC beneficiaries will not be minors forever...
Liquor prices are still "moderate" in the Square though sales are up. A vendor pointed out that just after prohibition prices were way above these now charged, for "stuff" that might be no more than just "a quart of grain alcohol mixed in with some rally prune juice." Now, according to all reports, whisky is better quality
Married. Allan A. Ryan Jr., 37, grandson of the late, great financier, Thomas Fortune Ryan; and Priscilla ("Prune") St. George Duke, 21, "prettiest blonde divorcee in Tuxedo Park," grandniece of Sara Delano Roosevelt, ex-wife of Tobacconist Angier Biddle Duke; he for the third time, she for the second; in Tuxedo Park...
...write as tenderly about his own children (see his Rainy Day} as any other man living. Nash does most of his writing, however, in the guise of a sensitive prune. He speaks for the cartoon 20th-century American male-the subway-ridden goofus whose personality is deeply engraved on his cigaret lighter, and whose most ambitious ethical concept is "if it's trite, it's right." Nash knows his American civilization, and he can write about it like an efficiency expert in baggy pants. His light verse is a remarkable rhetorical invention. Where McCord, a traditionalist, makes...
Suppressed in France and also in Germany lest it endanger the Franco-German relations of 1933, the Miraculous Victory of Emperor Ulrich collected dust on Poet Thomasset's bookshelf while its author continued to dream and prune his vines. At the time of the Austrian Anschluss he hoisted a swastika over his chateau, greeted his neighbors with the only German words he had ever learned: "Heil Hitler...