Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long admitted that business bagan blossoming with luxuriant new millions of dollars shortly after the slogan, "Say it with flowers!" first was used. Data were not published as to the exact hour when the precious words first unfolded, nor the posture, state of mind, diet and dress of their author at the moment of burgeoning. But the floral directors were at last able to express their belated thanksgiving. They voted last week that a gold medal be struck off, incrusted by a floral design in diamonds, emeralds and rubies, and presented to Florist J. S. O'Keefe of Boston...
Divorced. Ben Hecht, 36, famed Manhattan-born Chicago author-journalist (Eric Dorn, Humpty Dumpty), by the former Marie Armstrong, critic, who was granted $3,500 a year alimony and the custody of their nine-year-old daughter; in Chicago...
...this evening in Peabody Hall at 8 o'clock on Mahatina Gandhi, the great Indian spiritual leader. Dr. Holmes is at present minister of the Community Church of New York, which was formerly the Church of the Messiah. He is also well-known as a lecturer and as the author of "New Wars for Old," and "The Life and Letters of Robert Collyer" and numerous books of a religious nature...
Competitors will send poems, signed with a nom de plume, to Mr. J. Abbot, Seretary, 41 Osborne Road, Brookline, Mass., on or before Saturday, April 17, and a separate envelop with the author's own name and address...
...Lovelace and Sir John Suckling, two of the best known of the Cavalier Poets. Of the early editions of the former the most important is "Lucasta, Posthume Poems", published in 1658 after the early death of the poet. On the fly page is an excellent woodcut production of the author fashioned as a bust and placed on an urn bearing the word "Posthume". Of Suckling's works on display, the most interesting is his "Fragmenta Aurea, A Collection of All the Incomparable Pieces Written by Sir John Suckling", which was published...