Word: camellias
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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...
While Republicans complained that they had been given a slow horse for a fast race, Democrats prepared to fight Bill Knowland next year. Their favored candidate was another newspaperman: New Dealer Manchester Boddy, dapper 54-year-old camellia king and publisher of Los Angeles' fast-stepping, politically potent Daily News...
...convivial Edward James Smythe, onetime speaker at Bund and Ku Klux Klan rallies, held up proceedings for two days while FBI agents were sent to fetch him, spluttering indignantly, from a fishing trip near the Canadian border. There were also George Deatherage, founder of the Knights of the White Camellia; Howard Victor Broenstrupp, alias the Duke of St. Saba, alias Count Cherep-Spiridovich, etc. Nine of the defendants were already interned or in jail. They arrived by police van. Among them: famed, shrewd Propagandist George Sylvester Viereck, good friend of ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II; the Silver Shirts' William Dudley...