Word: flower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deal, and a good campaigner, was beaten by Harry H. Schwartz, able legislator but poor campaigner who lost to him in 1930. In Iowa the victim was a stern New Deal hater, Lester Dickinson. In his place was elected mild, polished, praise-seeking Governor Clyde La Verne Herring, flower-lover and ex-Ford dealer. In Michigan, the seat of the late Senator Couzens, overwhelmingly defeated in the primaries by former Governor Wilber M. Brucker, was won by Representative Prentiss March Brown, New Dealer who was a good friend of Republican Couzens...
...best friends some Catholics, some Protestants, some Christian Scientists and some Jews. But most of those with whom he has associated closely during four years at Harvard have held the same generally undefined religious attitude as himself. This is the year 1936. In the years when the great flower we know as Harvard was still a tight little Puritan bud there was an enforced unanimity or religious sentiment that we nowadays find difficult to understand. Man was damned, utterly completely horribly and Calvinistically damned, and there might be no mistake about it. Michael Wigglesworth, graduate, and tutor at Harvard...
...Places of entertainment closed early. To stir up the inhabitants' flagging spirits notices were pinned up in the streets, "Men of Madrid ! Will you allow your women to be raped by Moors !" The women themselves were similarly exhorted by Communist Deputy Doña Dolores ("The Passion Flower") Ibarruri, who pleaded: "Women of Madrid ! Do not hinder your husbands from going to War. It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a miserable coward...
Another work of great interest is the "Flower Vendor" by Raphael Soyer. It gives a scene of typical New York types, with emphasis on facial expressions and characteristic gestures and dress. Every face is carefully modeled, much attention being paid to individual features. An arresting point in the painting is the incongruity of the shabbily dressed man holding clumsily the luxurious and fragile flowers, whose bright red contrast strongly with the dingy black and brown of his dress. This red and the red of the handkerchief in his pocket put life into the scene and bring the whole into focus...
Among those who have been down are Al Banlon, currently out with since trouble, Bill O'Conner, Dick Brayton, and Dick Dyer, and Dave Flower in the shot put, while another expected mainstay is the transfer George Klain, who is out for football; Sears in the hammer; Cook, Pottingell, and Mulliken in the pole vault...