Word: flora
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...couldn't figure out exactly why, can't subsist without a descendant of the white founders watching over them from the ancestral mansion. For two hours, Madeleine chases Stirling from cave to bamboo-tree, limping rather creditably through a script so bad that it makes even the talented Flora Robson appear ridiculous...
Governorship of a black, uncharted Java at 30, then to deal fairly with natives, to write a history of Java, to collect maps, curios, flora, fauna-and finally, against the opposition of his elders, to snatch an island and found a city (at the age of 37) dedicated to free trade, vigorous justice, mixed honor and unceasing labor. This was a pungent man; Britain needed more like him in the East...
...species of tobacco and other plants for the practical U.S. Department of Agriculture and for his own purer research at the University of California. He tells his adventures in a new book, Plant Hunters in the Andes (Farrar & Rinehart; $5). Like all scientists who have pillaged foreign flora for the profit of U.S. agriculture, Goodspeed and his staff had no easy time. They slept in huts tumbling with guinea pigs, which Peruvians keep as pets. They rode along precipices on dynamite trucks. They broke the ice in hog troughs to wash their morning faces...
...raise the sum that Aeolian-Skinner demands for it. As to why the University has done nothing about purchasing the organ-that should perplex no one. The Corporation just isn't interested. It will barter its birthright to acquire a new scientific instrument, or some rare species of flora for the Arnold Arboretum, but when it comes to seeing the value of a thing like the Bach Organ, which reaches hundreds of people in a tangible, practical way, the Corporation draws a complete blank...
...bars of a big animal cage under a life-size photograph of Gorilla Gargantua. Said an accompanying placard: "Cathedra gargantua, genus americanus. Weight when fully matured, 60 pounds. Habitat, the American Home. Devours little children, pencils, small change, fountain pens, bracelets, clips, earrings, scissors, hairpins, and other small flora and fauna of the domestic jungle. Is far from extinct...