Word: azalea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senators found it hard to keep their minds on the Big Navy Bill. Representatives went out on the Capitol lawn and played baseball, badly, with each other. Then both the Senate and the House recessed over the weekend so any legislators who wanted to could go to the annual Azalea Festival in Charleston...
Some 150 Senators and Representatives and their wives, led by Vice President Garner like a small Scoutmaster, trooped to the station and got on the Azalea Special. In Charleston, as the guests of the city, they visited the Navy yards, rubbered at beauty queens, went to a ball. At a luncheon given by Mayor Burnet Maybank, Mr. Garner made news by opening the closet and displaying the current Democratic family skeleton. Referring to a "misunderstanding between me and my boss" (by whom he meant President Roosevelt) he said: "I sometimes do not agree with my wife. You can understand...
...western part of the Carolinas, the Blue Ridges with their evergreens, myrtle and wild azalea, laurel and rhododendron...
...turns to a nearer wonderland, to a walled garden where the lilacs, now past their fullest bloom, but lovely still, run in purple and mauve along the quiet walks. A rampart of hills slope toward the sunset, and their sides are covered with the flower called the torch azalea, whose scentless beauty can teach the Vagabond more than all the sages can. Further on there is a valley where the sentinel pines stand black against a setting of green leaved oaks and hemlocks. There is also a brook, and horsemen clatter over the wooden bridge that bestrides it. A group...
...that to preserve the country's wild flowers he must never pick pink Lady's Slipper, Indian Moccasin, Liverleaf, Turk's-cap lily, Lady's Tresses, Rattlesnake Plantain. In moderation the Garden Club allows the picking of Grass of Parnassus, New Jersey Tea, Bluets, Clammy Azalea, Mad-Dog Skullcap and Virgin's Bower. If the urge to pick simply overpowers a city-dweller, the Garden Club begs him go for Blue-eyed grass. Bouncing Bet, Horse Mint, Daisy Fleabane, Devil's Bit, Lousewort and Viper's Bugloss. Violets, daisies and goldenrod...