Word: florals
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...evening dress with a red carnation, one night last week, thus setting London's impeccable chappies terribly agog. On the very next evening dozens of red carnations appeared in Mayfair, and smart women flattered their escorts by thrilling, "How adorably ghastly!" Meanwhile, however, Jester Wales, having had his floral joke,* was speeding nocturnally toward the north of England, to visit in grim earnest the stricken coal fields where a half-million miners are workless and nigh to starving (TIME...
...Walter J. Kohler, new Governor of Wisconsin, came last week a floral lavatory. Presented to the Governor in connection with his inaugural exercises, the blooming washbasin is two feet high and 18 inches wide, and exactly duplicates the "Columbia" lavatory, as manufactured by the Governor in his plumbing fixture factory. It is made of from 400 to 500 white carnations, favorite flower of the Governor...
...gigantesque floral graces of Auguste Renoir whose canvases are glowing bouquets of drapery, decoration, tinted flesh...
...phosphorus treatment is only one phase of the larger question of plant requirements. Plant Physiologist Gericke suspects that plants, like people, take more food than they need for growth. He has therefore, experimented with balanced rations, which led to a method of growing floral plants in water solutions containing only the essential growth elements. He has also developed a method of growing young tomato plants in cold frames; feeding them special fertilizers; producing a greater crop than the untreated controls...
...dark street, spitting a mechanical stream of fire and lead. "Big Tim" died where he stood. Accustomed to gangster funerals in Chicago, the United Press issued a laconic bulletin on the Murphy ceremony before it took place. "A cortege a mile long, with scores of automobiles bearing floral tributes . . . etc., etc." But the U. P. guessed poorly. Chicago is changing a little. The Chicago Crime Commission, under a small, fearless, 76-year-old lawyer, named Frank J.Loesch, has set out to clean up the crime capital of the U. S. beginning at the top with Chief of Police Michael Hughes...