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...camclia's camelia, for a' that, no matter what the language. And when the billboards in a rapt ecstatic way hailed the Garbo as she lured Robert Taylor to her by the scent of her camelias, we stepped inside the gates without an instant wasted. As a matter of fact Robert Taylor is a big slug: Garbo wouldn't need any flowers to draw us down the primrose path. But that's a matter for the Moviegoer; this is a botany story...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 2/23/1937 | See Source »

...stewards of Arlington Park race-track near Chicago having disqualified his horse Princess Camelia for fouling three other horses in a race last week, Joseph Leiter used what the stewards called "intemperate language and con-duct." They fined him $250, suspended him from the track...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 13, 1931 | 7/13/1931 | See Source »

...three rooms stand out in the memory of the casual observer, the student lounging there after a Fine Arts examination. That screen on the dais, with its silver gray background and autumn flowers behind a brushwood fence, is echoed in the huge grey globe of Shigaraki pottery. The red camelia of the screen finds a red reflection in the lacquer of the ancient stand below. So too with the insolent macaw by Jakucho as his whiteness is given the emphasis of repetition in the whiteness of the jar beneath him. In short the arrangement is as winning as the selection...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 1/28/1928 | See Source »

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