Word: dahlias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blue Dahlia (Paramount) and Her Kind of Man (Warner) are welcome throwbacks to a better, rougher day in movies. Before Hollywood had adjusted to talk without forgetting all the vivid lessons of silence, when none of the men in power had heard too much about literature, or movies as a white-collar art, and the sinister forces of Decency were still relatively quiescent, many vigorous, perceptive and entertaining movies were turned out. The best dealt with violence and skill-usually criminal-in big cities. Good examples: Public Enemy, Little Caesar, The Crowd Roars...
...Blue Dahlia serves this old wine in up-to-date glassware. Its story (by Raymond Chandler): a newly discharged veteran (Alan Ladd), suspected of his wife's murder, goes up against most of the law & disorder in Hollywood before he discovers who killed her. The cynical crispness of atmosphere, character, and knowledge of the cold half-world, roughly approximated in films like Double Indemnity and Murder, My Sweet, has seldom been excelled since the early 1930s...
Roosevelt picked the Chicago lawyer and dahlia-grower for Secretary of the Interior. Ickes had dared to hope that he might be made Commissioner of Indian Affairs...
...happened to know that he was a dahlia enthusiast and grew many show blooms. Being only an amateur dahlia grower . . . and having learned how ... to beg of those more fortunate a few of their dahlia roots that they are sure not to plant, I wrote the Secretary, admitting my poor financial standing and profoundly and sincerely begged for some...
Like a great dahlia, the sun is ringed with petals of light. The inner corona, one-millionth as bright as the sun's heart, is dazzling yellow, the outer corona pearly white, with delicate, wraithlike streamers. Often the corona is racked by violent eruptions that produce magnetic storms through the earth's atmosphere. But it is impossible to detect such phenomena with an ordinary telescope, for the sun's brilliance obscures its crown. For years astronomers rushed to the ends of the earth, chasing eclipses so they could photograph the corona for a few minutes while...