Word: flower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...black Mary was no widow. Her husband, who had gone home to enlist as a private in Lee's Battery of Virginia Light Artillery, was fighting shoulder-to-shoulder with the flower of Southern chivalry against the invading hordes of Yankee "nigger lovers." With the exception of one court-martial and two months in a Federal prison camp in 1865, little is known of Lucian Fletcher's Civil War record. His amatory progress after Appomattox, however, was crystal clear...
...Antibes she lived in a villa built "by French Pheasants." Among the foreign colony: "There are plenty of scandlous durings going on here." She liked the "Smart and Strudy Swiss." In Belgrade a girl passed her carrying a succulent dish. Said Juanita: "where ever you goth I'll flower it smelled so good I flowered Her 2 blocks." When she writes of herself as leaving "in rout'' she does not mean that her unshakable equanimity has been disturbed. ''The French are called the Sweetheart Nation because they kiss and hugh right on the buisy streets...
...others Capone. At any rate Torrio quickly stepped into the dead man's shoes, kept Capone as his right-hand man. When Dion O'Banion's North Side gang hijacked too much of their beer in 1924; O'Banion was neatly drilled in his Chicago flower shop. Torrio attended the $50,000 funeral with Capone, looked at his dead foe, murmured disconsolately: "Poor Dion." But the floral wreath he sent was dumped in an ashcan, and Torrio fled to Hot Springs, Ark., to New Orleans, to the Bahamas, to Cuba, pursued by O'Banion gunmen...
...what is lost in euphony is probably gained in realism. Paul Killiam, Jr. is splendid as one of the companion medical students, a primitive fellow with a rare good humor and a tremendous appetite for the frivolities. And so on through the rest in the cast: Isabella Gardner, John Flower, Alfonse Ossorio, Paul Sturges, and John Barnard; they're all uniformly good...
...leading roles are Lois Hall of the Radcliffe Idlers Club, who takes the part of Anne Hargreaves, and Norton Goodwin '38, who plays Charles Triton. The remainder of the cast follows: Mrs. McFie Isabella Gardiner Gilbert Raymond Paul Killiam, Jr. '37 John Williams John Flower '39 Dr. Paul Duhamel Alfonso Ossorio '38 Gill Mannering Bettina Gray Roger Cole Paul Sturges '37 Peter Morgan John Barnard...