Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four years ago two Miltonias, orchids of ancient lineage, were bred together. Last week at the fall flower show of New York's Horticultural Society, the offspring of this union, a small, white, pansy-like orchid with a heart of deep maroon, was christened by John B. Lager, its flower godfather. Forty-eight hours earlier in the great library at Hyde Park, while two candles burned on a small improvised altar, Grandfather Franklin Roosevelt, seated in a great chair, had the joy of seeing a dark-haired baby girl, his eldest son's eight-month-old daughter, baptized...
After their campaign labors, the following politicians made or planned the following moves: Pennsylvania's Governor George Howard Earle, to Delray. Fla. for deep-sea fishing. New York's Governor Herbert Henry Lehman, to Williamstown, Mass, to watch his son Peter and the Williams freshman football team lose 12-to-0 to the Wesleyan freshmen. Governor Lehman's defeated rival, William Francis Bleakley, back to his law practice at Yonkers, N. Y. Michigan's Governor-elect Frank Murphy, a flight to the Philippines. Massachusetts' Senator-elect Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., to Bermuda. Democratic Boss James...
...found myself incoherently delighted like a child. . . . Attempting to avoid nothing, in fact, choosing if anything, the worst pieces of surface, I sailed down the middle of Bishop's Avenue hating the whole performance like poison, for I loathe so to treat a car . . . potholes a foot deep are everywhere. . . . Cars with orthodox springing, even of the best kind, shake the teeth in one's head as they pass over Bishop's Avenue. . . . Ghastly thuds sounded beneath the car as the road wheels rose and fell, but the classic shape of the well-known radiator in front...
...comic career by consulting Professor Zeero, a turbaned faker, who advised her to marry an impostor named Senor Gonzales. When Lala Palooza's lazy brother, Vincent Doolittle, opposed the match he was thrown through a door by Hives, his sister's supercilious chauffeur. Thrilled to her deep core, Lala Palooza accepted Gonzales and this week, in the course of reducing to please him, she blacks both Professor Zeero's eyes with a dumbbell, drops heavy weights on Brother Vincent...
...Valley's prime selling points are the warm sun and the deep valley. Male skiers in U. P.'s promotion literature are usually pictured stripped to the waist and mopping their brows. Female skiers are generally reclining in ice block "Sunroom Igloos" getting a good "ice tan." An open-air, warm-water swimming pool for midwinter bathing is to be another Ketchum specialty. Other features: bobsledding, sleighriding, dog racing, skating rinks, "hot potato" rest huts...