Word: camellia
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...passenger or crewman had survived to give evidence. Most of them burned beyond recognition, 55 men, women & children, including Egyptian Screen Star Camellia (Lilliane Cohen), "the Lana Turner of the East," and Massachusetts Institute of Technology's able Dean Everett Moore Baker, had died...
...Camellia Man. But just as Downey dropped off the merry-go-round, he bequeathed his wan blessing and his political organization to a newcomer to politics, Elias Manchester Boddy, publisher of California's only big-city Democratic daily, the Los Angeles Daily News, and gentleman farmer of a 168-acre suburban camellia and azalea farm...
Last December the News had pointed sharply to the political inexperience of the leading Democratic candidate for governor, Jimmy Roosevelt. "We just do not believe," Boddy had written from his camellia farm, "that Roosevelt has the necessary qualifications for the job." Now, Candidate Boddy, a man with less political experience, was trying to settle down comfortably on the same ticket...
...policeman and rapped peremptorily on the rear window. "All I want to do is shake hands with him," she told the cop defiantly. (The Veep rolled down a window and obliged.) Other women stormed into the church and briskly stripped the chancel of every last chrysanthemum, camellia and fern...
Outside the house, under red-blossomed camellia trees, old women were cutting dandelions for spring greens-and coarser weeds for nanny goats carefully tethered by the front porch. Nearby were bamboo groves where old plants are grown for fuel and new shoots are cut like asparagus in April...