Word: dahlias
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When the Depression came, Lavina dug 700 holes, each 18 inches deep, and planted dahlias. Then she made them grow-in a country where dahlias do not flourish. Garden-clubbers came from miles around to see it, and Lavina's "dahlia money" helped send all of her eight children to college...
...brush starts a fire in a frightfully brainy novel-writing number named Florence Craye and a slow burn in her brawny fiancé, G. D'Arcy (Stilton) Cheesewright. The subplots, all highly glutinous (sticky, to lesser men), involve 1) a pawned pearl necklace, 2) the sale by Aunt Dahlia* of a cherished weekly, 3) a blighter who writes poetry designed to produce persp. on any decent citizen's brow. The solutions developed in Jeeves's think-tank may seem a little watery to the highbrow-critic chaps. But looking at the rosier side of the roast beef...
...Boston papers--for one edition. Brown had finally met up with the police reporters and given them substantially the same story. But by noon Thursday there was a new angle. The Traveler's Home Edition ran a six-column streamer saying QUIZ 2 AT HARVARD IN DAHLIA CASE; The Globe played the story smaller, but in greater detail. It said...
...indignant: "Nobody ever saw me about this," he said. "It is absolutely untrue . . . it has no basis in fact." He told us that he was working on an extradition from Jersey City and checking on some people in the Boston area. We asked if he was working on the Dahlia case. "I'm always interested in it," said Brown. "I know more about that case than any other man alive, but it's not why I'm here." Had he been to Harvard? "Yes," he said, "I checked records there." Had they any connection with the Dahlia? "None whatever." Thursday...
...true story blew up in time for the late Thursday editions; Boston papers and the CRIMSON had independently checked with the Los Angeles police and come up with the same surprising results. Brown was indeed in Boston to check on the Dahlia case, although he was also working on the Jersey City extradition, and a Harvard man was involved. The Berkeley Street sources produced again (Brown was steadfastly sticking to his original story) and came up with what eventually turned out to be the first solid facts on Brown's doings. He had questioned a Business School graduate...