Word: camellias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
Turning next to the Camellia Room of the Lafayette, we find Friday and Saturday evening dancing on a good sized floor well-stocked with university aged people. A small Marshard unit is the reward for the $2.00 minimum, and as the room grows increasingly darker, the music, through sheer coincidence, becomes increasingly slower. With good dancing, adequate food and liquor, and a quite informal atmosphere, the Camellia Room is a good choice when parietal rules terminate in-room entertaining...
Daughter, Daughter. She had red hair and green eyes, and a camellia-white complexion. They called her Magda, a good name for a voluptuous beauty of her type. She joined the Greek Orthodox Church, though her mother was a Roman Catholic Viennese dancer and her father a Jewish merchant (variously described as a moneylender, druggist, innkeeper, garageman). The story goes that Papa Lupescu was very fond of Carol, and liked to refer to him and Magda as "my children." Once, when Carol's brother Nicolas recklessly proposed to marry a commoner, Papa Lupescu chided Magda: "Daughter, daughter! What kind...
...sexy romance with conscientious trappings of history. The action runs from 1866 to 1874 and is bound up with the bloody struggle in Louisiana between Negro freedmen, corrupt carpetbaggers and diehard slave owners. The leading figures are exquisite: evil Hugh Duncan, who employs the terrorist Knights of the White Camellia, and Laird Fournois, masterful friend of the black...