Word: floridas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eight short stories) seem modernized, less Semitic than their forerunners. Perhaps that is mere geography: "Blood Is Redder Than Water" (mistaken identity in a fight over women and a will) transpires at Rockaway Beach, L. I.; "Cousins of Convenience" (a comedy of clothes) hints at the annual hegira to Florida; "Never Begin with Lions" (cinema tribulations) is in Los Angeles. Abe and Mawruss appear at length, however, fond anachronisms in a friendly quarrel over "Keeping Expenses Down...
...Just tell the truth about Florida," advised her Governor...
...great interest to me. I have wished the Book Reviews were more extensive and was very glad to find so good a review of A. Edward Newton's new book, The Greatest Book in the World, in the Oct. 5 number, Page 17. We spend our winters in Florida and our summers in Maine. I will send the Florida address as soon as we know where it will be. Don't let me miss a number, as happened last year when we made a change of residence...
...Succumbing to the chilly winds of Omaha, Big Joe, aged 150, massive mascot of the Florida delegation, turned over on his back and died. On the lawn of the courthouse the alligator was buried with ceremonies...
...Florida is a sunny state; her ground is rich, her seas warm, the hearts of her sons blithe. But the milkmen of Florida do not leave bottles of champagne on the stoop with their morning deliveries; cigarstore men do not use ten-dollar bills for coupons; melons are not filled with wine; cream does not run down the hills; checkbooks do not grow on trees in Florida. Last week in Manhattan a dozen prominent Floridians gathered to protest against the reckless and fraudulent exploitation which is hurting their state. Governor John W. Martin of Florida was in the chair. Coleman...