Word: cactus
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...Republican Party. "Except where it has been compelled to follow the paths made by the Wilson Administration it has been as spine less as a Burbank cactus...
...slides shown in connection with the talk revealed many different kinds of plants and animal life. Dwarf palms, cactus, larch fir, and rubber trees were the most interesting of the species in that tropical jungle...
...gila monster for a favorite pet and a cactus in his garden...
...date Piffle Play in Which a Man and a Woman, Both Trying to Find Themselves Find One Another; Dead Men's Gold?a film of the great Nevada Deserts in which Red-Blooded, Abie-Bodied Men and Women a hundred per cent. American live and love among the cactus and chaparral; Oroastus?a Greek Tragedy as presented by the senior class in classics at the University of Squeegee (S. or N. D., or even Kans. or Ill.); an Ibsen takeoff; historical drama of various sorts; the Russian theatre (Old Style) full of knouts and beautiful Nihilists and (New Style...
...senator had the idea that it was something like the whisky made by bootleggers another that it was made of some kind of bean, and a third that it was an essence of sunflower seed; investigation, however, decided that it comes from a certain part of a cactus blossom, which grows somewhere along the Rio Grande. Its effects were clearly explained by the recorded statement of an Omaha: "After eating thirty-six peyote I got just like drunk, only more so, and more good than when I drink whisky." Another senator had heard that "the effect was to bring about...