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...Sirs: A blossom to TIME'S copywriters (Jan. 13, p. 13) for their crisp, 75-word, four-sentence summary of illegal and defunct AAA-so simple even a Democrat should understand. VIOLET G. OWENS St. Louis...
...Golden Gleam appeared in the U. S. in 1932. Neither a fancy cocktail nor a crack train, the Golden Gleam, a product of Mexico, was a double nasturtium, bearing ten petals to the ordinary blossom's five. Alert David Burpee of Philadelphia's W. Atlee Burpee Co. saw here a fine chance-if seized vigorously- to get ahead of his competitors. Sweet-scented but limited to its one glowing color, the Golden Gleam might be produced in various colors if crossbred with common nasturtiums...
According to Glen Gray, who started out as an Orange Blossom in Michigan and came from there to be a Casa Loma in New York, it isn't fair to be asked your impressions of Harvard...
...Tarzan and Peck's Bad Boy, uttering the most fearsome grunts and growls; Lysander who turns out to be none other than our own Dick Powell needs some more Shakespearean seasoning, and when his voice rises into the higher octaves, he is practically indistinguishable from Mustard Seed and Pease Blossom...
...game, indeed, all human life in nomad Arabia would have become extinct." The love of Faris and Tuema was gay, poetic, eloquent and chaste. To Faris the girl was "as shy as a gazelle fawn." He cried out: "I shall never be at peace until the slender blossom bends before the storm of my love." Awed and impressed by such tempestuous passion, Carl Raswan received the confidences of the lovers, was present at their meetings. Faris would put his hand over Tuema's heart, saying thoughtfully: "It jumps like a wild rabbit." And Tuema would murmur in reply...