Word: crocus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outdoor exercise can reduce attacks to mere demonstrations in force. Standard treatment, besides wrapping the throbbing foot in cotton wool, is a diet with plenty of water, and strangely enough, fat, especially fresh butter. Many doctors also rely on injections of colchicine (from the root of the autumn crocus) to relieve the agonizing pain, and cinchophen (a complicated synthetic acid) to promote uric acid elimination...
...river--a hundred rivers--the earth will remember how to spring again. Somewhere the sun will shine, and great clouds trundle away or crumble in the blue like fallen ramparts. Somewhere a housewife will wipe her red hands upon her apron and smile down at the first bewildering crocus. Along Marlborough Street the neat old gentlemen will have belatedly hung up their Chesterfields and derbies. Somewhere, yes. But here? Here there is a terrifying notice posted. So swivel your eyes and your thoughts back to this book, Vag. The notice say: "Regular meetings in all courses will conclude...
From Rotterdam last week arrived the first of the 100,000,000 tulip, gladioli, iris, hyacinth, crocus and daffodil bulbs worth some $5,000,000 which the Dutch annually export to the U. S. This week the cordial trade relations between The Netherlands and the U. S. blossomed with the announcement that a vacant lot in Manhattan's Radio City will soon sprout a Netherlands Building...
...Wood's picture book was called How To Tell The Birds From The Flowers (and other Wood-cuts). In it he professed to find philosophical and pictorial resemblances between the crow and the crocus, the hawk and the hollyhock, the pea and the pewee, the rue and the rooster, the pecan and the toucan, many others. After 21 years and 17 editions, the book is still in print. It sells about 600 copies a year. Dr. Wood occasionally checks up on sales in department stores, to make sure that his publishers (currently, Dodd, Mead & Co.) are sending him enough...
Whereupon, all the afternoon I to tandem in the country; and I did hear a robin and see a crocus and a beautiful day it was. By and by out of the clear sky--tells me Wellesley College girls are giving up their desserts and the price thereof to be given to flood relief. So we to get a chocolate and thence took to talking about the "Veterans of Future Wars"; and that they one day will spill blood on foreign soil and be the fathers of many children; and I still think this is mighty fine arguing...