Word: botanist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Botanist into President...
...Trencsen drafted with much thought a letter to Bangkok. About a year ago, he explained, some Slovaks held a mass meeting and issued a "Declaration of Slovak Independence." The whole thing was quite harmless and academic, easily suppressed by the police. In fact the ringleader was just an old botanist of some slight renown, Professor Mihalusz. Scared pink as a geranium by the first police warning. Botanist Mihalusz fled Trencsen for parts unknown?some say Vienna. He must have written the letter which won Slovakia recognition?from Siam...
Street Angel. In the slums of Naples a mother is dying. Her daughter, Angela (Janet Gaynor), goes out on the streets to obtain money for medicine by selling herself. Arrested, sentenced to a workhouse, she escapes, finds employment with a traveling circus. And, as any botanist could have predicted, the rose of romance burgeons in the sawdust. In this case, the male principal is Gino (Charles Farrell), who paints minor masterpieces more often than he takes a bath. When Gino takes Angela back to Naples, the police recognize her and clap her into jail. When she is finally released, Gino...
...confused with Charles Hillyer Brand, able jurist, banker, philanthropist and U. S. Representative from Athens, Ga., nor with Charles John Brand, able botanist, economist and marketing expert of the U. S. Department of Agriculture...
...Atheists' report is a list of the Board of Directors of the A. A. A. A. Of these, several are men well-known to the world for qualities other than their godlessness. One is E. Haldeman-Julius, publisher of nickel books; another is Ira D. Cardiff, noted botanist...