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...species, ordinarily do not grow taller than three feet. One of the smallest known, a Chinese variety, is only three inches in height. Dr. Small is afraid his transplanted iris will be stunted by the northern climate, will grow to be only about four feet tall. If they flourish, he plans a public exhibit next spring...
...joined the game. Munching a lettuce sandwich, sipping milk, Prohibition Director Amos Walter Wright Woodcock sat in his office and told Washington newshawks about his recent visit to Chicago. Perhaps in all seriousness, but with ludicrous effect, he said: "I saw nothing of the speakeasies that are reported to flourish [there]. Why, I even walked down some of the so-called 'bad streets' several nights. ... I saw no machine-guns on street corners, or anything like that! ... I was very much alone, but no one shot...
...Texas roast its blacks alive, Let racketeers extend and thrive, Let gangsters flourish and survive By methods grim and gory! But Knee-high shorts shall still preserve The noble mind, the fearless nerve And still shall culture's highest curve Remain Columbia's glory...
...recent edict of Palaeopitus, the student governing body at Dartmouth, has relegated all Freshmen restrictions to the limbo of the graduates' memory, where, no doubt, it will flourish for many years to come. Only one relic of school days remains for the first year man at Hanover; he must wear a green skull cap with a white button on top. But he need no longer salute his professors with perfunctory respect, no longer need he wear a coat at all times, no longer must his Coonskin hang idle in his closet; nor must the wary freshman climb into...
...What have the Atlanta newspapers been doing that they have permitted a thing like this to blossom and flourish . . . and never a line about it? . . . The Telegraph is of the opinion that the more quickly a bad matter is brought to the light . . . the sooner it will be dissipated. . . . If the kluxing effort had been shown up to start with, thousands of good Georgians would never put on a mask or a nightshirt at $10 for a 35? garment and the order would have died aborning...