Word: crocus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kellogg is a resident of St. Paul. When home, he dwells in a spacious, squatty, fenced-in, brownstone mansion, diademing St. Paul's exclusive Crocus Hill. From his attic window he can see. two miles across a low-lying plateau, the majestic bluffs of the Mississippi River, where this gay young stream flirts sharply around a bend to escape from Minneapolis sewage...
Another Language, Autumn Crocus, Dinner at Eight...
...Autumn Crocus (by C. L. Anthony: Lee Shubert, producer). Fanny saved up her money to take a little trip through the Tyrol in the autumn. She had never seen the mountains, but she felt sure she would love them. There was a photograph of them on the wall of the kindergarten in which she taught at Manchester. The moment he saw her the strapping young innkeeper of the Gasthaus Rote Hirsch, above Innsbruck, knew that he and Fanny would get along together. For the police register she confessed to being 29. The amiable innkeeper was amazed. The reason she looked...
...Dirty puddles lie among the cobble-stones. the earth gives, and boots are splashed with brown. The sun is shining and great clouds trundle away or crumble in the blue like fallen ramparts. A housewife wipes her red hands upon an apron and smiles down at the first bewildering crocus. Horses in the shafts steam and try to forget their winter coats. Old gentlemen on Marl bore Street hang up their Chesterfields and derbies. Little boys go shouting into a tumbled house and little girls wear blue...
...evolution. Professor Huxley complimented the Bostonians on their century's work, emphasized the need for instructing the public in natural history. To illustrate how interested laymen are in animals, he said that in a radio address he had mentioned the strange habit English sparrows have of pecking at crocuses in some districts, spurning them in others. Shortly after he received letters from 200 people giving him information on the sparrow-crocus problem...