Word: floras
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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PONJOLA-Cynthia Stockley-Putnam ($2.00). Lady Flavia Desmond was Tired of It All. She was just about to make a hole in the Seine when she ran into Lundi Druro, a tall, bronzed personage, back from Africa on leave, whose tales of the native flora and fauna and remarks on What a Wonderful Thing True Love Was (he was then engaged to somebody else who ditched him later) made Flavia decide to dress up in masculine tweeds and take a look at this Earthly Paradise he talked about. She found the scenery marvelous, but everybody drank Scotch before breakfast...
...annually a large number of expeditions. Its third Asiatic expedition has just left Peking under the leadership of Roy Chapman Andrews, the well-known naturalist and explorer. It will prospect for six months the treasures of the Gobi Desert and Inner Mongolia, known to be rich in fossil flora and fauna, including mastodons and mammoths, which are believed to have wandered eastward from their source in central Asia. Popular expectations with regard to the " missing link " of human evolution and the site of the "Garden of Eden" are hardly likely to be realized, however...
...possibilities. Labrador is the nearest port of America to Europe. It is 1600 miles distant from Ireland. Its coast is easy of approach in the summer, there being no sand banks, and all its innumerable harbors having deep water. Sir William MacGreggor and I collected speciments of its flora and sent them to Kew, England, for a report on their ability to support reindeer; the report was absolutely favorable. Everyone who knows Labrador, knows that from Cape Chidley itself, even on the Island, to the most southern boundary of Labrador on the Gulf of St. Lawrence, caribou, which...
...been unfaithful to her husband while he is off fighting the invaders. His blind father knows the guilt but not the name of the lover, Avito, so he keeps silence. The husband Manfredo, on his return, is coldly received, but goes again to war with the pledge that Flora will wave to him until his retinue is out of sight. Beguiled by Avito, she leaves the battlements too soon; the blind father strangles her, the husband returns, and the two wooers die (as opera demands) by kissing the poisoned lips of the corpse. It is all very Absurd, very passionate...
...into it by the leading singers, made it a work of beauty. Miss Garden's medium voice sounded shop-worn, but above and below it was rich--and much could have been forgiven in return for the impressive manner in which she dominated each situation. The figure of Flora, scarlet-clad, waving to her departing husband from the battlements, is memorable, and the ensuing struggle with Archibaldo before he kills her, is a most impressive climax. M. Baklanoff, as Manfredo, outdid his comrades with a smooth and telling voice: M. Crimi's Avito was less inspired, though agreeable...