Word: flower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seated at a flower-decked table was His Majesty in blue-serge trousers, silk blouse and flowing black cape with his children in well-tailored, tweedy sports clothes and flannels. Roared hearty British voices: "Welcome to the land of the free! Hurrah for the one and only Emperor of Ethiopia! Down with Mussolini...
...celebrate her Centennial. San Antonio, Goliad, Washington-on-the-Brazos, Houston, all had claims, as sites of critical events in the year 1836 (see p. 13). So the Centennial arrangers granted every city and village a right to its own celebration, raised practically every local rodeo, county fair, flower show, milk festival, fiddlers' reunion to the rank of a Centennial observance...
Before voting, the Guildmen heard New York's Mayor Fiorello ("Little Flower") LaGuardia declaim: "I think the Pullman porters had some difficulties similar to yours. Like you, they are scattered all over the country, and some are on the road all the time, so that it is extremely difficult for them to assemble. Further more, they met a most stubborn resistance on the part of employers. Airmail and passenger-line pilots, like you, originally resented the suggestion that they join in a labor group. They are now affiliated with the American Federation of Labor...
...steamship Clermont and Sir Lancelot Leadeth Lady Belle Isoudt to the Castle at Joyous Card. Hanging between these two was a violent group of black bucks looking at two dice that add up to seven, by Florida's Christopher Clark. There were also a number of flower studies...
...page) sprightly blonde of a book, as meaty and hearty as an oldtime burlesque queen. When Oscar Wilde landed in Manhattan he arrived in a U. S. that was already smiling behind its hand. The rumors of his long-haired, dandiacal appearance, his likeness to Gilbert & Sullivan's flower-devour-ing Bunthorne, had preceded him. Newshawks delightedly reported his first wisecrack, when he said to the customs inspector: "I have nothing to declare but my genius." Ace Photographer Sarony posed him in his lank locks, fur-trimmed coat and velvet knee-breeches. Society's biggest fish held aloof...