Word: ferns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...loveliest flowers, exotic ones with iridescent stems and golden caps rather than the sturdy blossoms of the fields. She drank in his literary phrases as the plants in her hothouse drank the warm, steamy air under glass. Until she really believed that her true relations should be with fern and tree and flower, not with her practical family and tiresome, boreal Roland. After charmingly imagined conversations with a philosophical water-lily and passionate adventures with an Oriental orchid, however, she turns back from this sowing of wild buds to the more dependable arms of the man. . . . The spice of mockery...
...very short story Mr. J. E. Barnett's "Fern Seed" possesses a degree of intensity that is admirable. Perhaps one does not understand the meaning of all the apparitions that came to Karl as he waited at the cross-roads "over both of which corpses have been borne to the burial-ground", but the retribution was Karl's secret, not ours. Mr. Barnett writes with a hint of magic. With Mr. Dumaux he should share honors...
...Columbia roses, sprays of aboli and maidenhair fern decorated the table in the great dining room of the White House when President Coolidge with 44 guests sat down to meat. The gathering included the French delegation to the Debt Conference (see CABINET), the entire Cabinet (except Messrs. Work and Weeks) ; Senators Smoot, Borah, Swanson; Ambassadors Herrick and Daeschner...
...academic society at Ann Arbor must also exercise a due restraint. To produce a real, live poet at a tea is an end aimed at by every hostess, but it has a bad effect on the poet. He is rushed like a florist's fern from one glittering gathering to another, until the peace and retirement necessary to the practise of a great art becomes a myth...
...following is the second of two articles released by the CRIMSON to the 20 members of the Eastern Intercollegiate Newspaper Association, and written for the CRIMSON by Captain Percy Red fern Creed, well-known English journalist and International sportsman. This article deals with the more practical questions of organization in the movement for international sport competitions, which he believes is the most promising cure for unfriendly foreign relations. The movement is supported by several prominent Harvard graduates...