Word: crocus
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...extends the kingdom of the nightingale, diffuses everywhere the secret perfume of the rose. The home where this man's mother lived was distinguished from all the other red-brick and stucco houses in a shabby suburban street by the wealth of flowering bulbs, jonquil packed beside narcissus, crocus beside grape hyacinth, which crammed the bow-windows of the ground floor flat. . . . When the spring came, they made a truly German window. Loving this lovely Germany, her son joined the SS, which bled and died that there should be camps where starved prisoners fell on the bodies of their...
Hate & Hunger. The city fathers of Tegelen, Holland, considered this spring of 1946, decided that it was not a season for rejoicing; they abolished the annual spring carnival. At Berchtesgaden, a crocus was pushing up through the ruins of Adolf Hitler's villa. Also pushing their way to light were weeds of old hatred; in Vienna, where a Jewish soccer team played a Gentile eleven, crowds suddenly rioted and yelled: "Into the gas with them! Into the gas!" Further south, along the thawing Danube, in Budapest, gypsies who had survived the Nazi purges again fiddled in the cafes...
...Colchicine - an extract of the autumn crocus, useful in gout - has been tried in some half-dozen cases of leukemia, the dread blood disease. No one has been saved from leukemia by colchicine, which slows down the division of living cells, but Dr. W. Harding Kneedler of Philadelphia thinks that colchicine helps and that "further trial . . . seems justified...
Lovers and Friends (by Dodie Smith, produced by Katharine Cornell and John C. Wilson) is Katharine Cornell and Raymond Massey adroitly wasting their time on a tedious drawing-room comedy of English puppet love. Dodie Smith, who in Autumn Crocus and Call It a Day wrote agreeable matinee folderol, in Lovers and Friends has worked out one of the oldest problems in sexual geometry on a theatrical abacus...
Almost as infallible as the perennial crocus, "Blossom Time" has bloomed again. And the Shuberts' latest edition of this old dependable lacks little of the sure-fire appeal with which it has warmed up staid Bostonians seven times in the last twenty years. The colorful costumes, glittering jewelry, chic frock coats and top hats, tinkling wine glasses and gay laughter are all there--set to melodies the world hasn't forgotten in 120 years, and isn't likely to in another thousand...