Word: fern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rabbit for France until things should quiet down. A few weeks ago brazen Juan March was offering publicly to highest bidders the Governorship of a Spanish province and all its seats in the Cortes, which he claimed to control. Last week Dastard March and the blameless Duquesa de Fernán Núñez were about equally scared. The Duchess stripped off her great rope of pearls, left it with Spanish frontier guards "for safe keeping," because otherwise they obstinately refused to permit Her Grace to flee to France...
During this interval, at a table decorated with pink roses, stevia and maidenhair fern, Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt entertained at luncheon Mmes Charles Evans Hughes, William Howard Taft, Louis Brandeis, George Sutherland, Pierce Butler, Harlan F. Stone and Owen J. Roberts...
...whoever was responsible for the account of the Central Conference of American Rabbis [TIME, July 8], TIME-reader Fern Pels (who, incidentally, speaks a slick Yiddish) would like to point out one refreshingly asinine mistake...
...FERN FELS...
...President Morris Ketchum Jesup, the big scale drawing of Baluchi-therium (TIME, April 8). Although in her informal surroundings upstairs Whitey had postured freely for the Press, she now retired as if in stage fright to one end of her glass cage, sat motionless and goggling behind a fern, presented to squadrons of school children only a vague profile and a view of her naked-looking rear...