Word: camelia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...home-town Hitlers Dies produced for scrutiny scarcely answered his critics. The chairman got hold of George Deatherage, head of a tiny group known as the Knights of the White Camelia. Deatherage regaled the committee with his ideas concerning the need for booting radicals and Jews out of the country. He proudly claimed membership in an international anti-Communist organization which had headquarters in Rome but admitted that the German consul in this country had refused his requests for aid. The Nazis knew a small-time operator when they saw one, even if Martin Dies didn...
...longtime mistress and now wife of France's Communist boss. The First Lady of French Communism speaks no English, and Marshall has forgotten most of his French; so hardly a syllable passed between the table companions in the flickering candlelight, while Jeannette vigorously concentrated on her dinner (Consomme Camelia, Timbale Joinville, Jambon d'York, Baltimore Laitue Nivernaise, Mousse Cyrano, Fromages, Fruits). Maurice Thorez himself was conspicuously absent...
...Widow Camelia of Lanuvio, Italy, who lost her husband, her two children and most of her other relatives in a bombardment, telling her story in a voice so astoundingly massive that she might be speaking the mourning of all Europe...
...boyish-looking bachelor of 29, he worked hard to prove he was no snob. By campaign's end he had made some 450 speeches before luncheon clubs, Catholic societies, the Camelia Lodge of Sons of Italy. He ate spaghetti with Italians, drank tea with Chinese, sipped sirupy coffee with Syrians. He stuck to local topics: restoration of Boston's port, encouragement of New England industries, aid for veterans...
...keep the public informed on last minute social events, the Nurses of the Cahill House, Cambridge City Hospital are sponsoring a dance on Thursday evening, December 9, at 2000. The dance is in celebration of graduation and will be held in the Nurses' Home just behind the Hospital on Camelia Street...