Word: flower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your issue of Nov. 12. under the heading "Dead Flower," you quote a remark of mine to the effect that TVA is "the only genuinely socialistic project in the New Deal-a beautiful flower in a garden of weeds." I should guess that you have taken your quotation from the front cover of a widely circulated pamphlet by the National Coal Association and that both of you think, as you certainly suggest to your readers, that the "weeds" to which I referred were other provisions of the New Deal, in legislation and administration...
...Jenkins' voice was a little tired but back she came in blue & cream satin, a rhinestone stomacher and a rhinestone tiara. Cinemen turned their cameras on her while she struggled with the Vissi d'Arte from Tosca. Last year she sang a flower song while tossing roses into the audience. In her excitement the basket slipped from her hand, hit an old gentle man on the head. Last week she repeated the flower song, pleased her friends by again hurling the basket...
...delights as some gentelmen would read a merrie tale in Roeeaeeio." The Duke and Duchess, hunting in the glade nearby, had been abusing her cruelly, for they pinched her if she danced ". . . they, good people, knew not what pleasure meant." The scholar felt himself drawn to this tender young flower of learning, and he watched her as she grow up in the court of Edward VI. At fifteen, she had mastered Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Italian, and French. She could embroider, and she was passing fair...
Meantime his budding flower was set upon by cutworms, slugs and aphids. Two preferred stockholders marched into court to block the Knoxville deal. A group of coal and ice companies, which mortally hate & fear TVA's hydro-electric schemes, hastily obtained judicial permission to join the fight. Since the agreement was already signed & sealed, Bond & Share was placed in the anomalous position of fighting shoulder to shoulder with Mr. Lilienthal...
...deal could be readily extended. Certainly Bond & Share had no desire to have the value of its Knoxville properties extinguished by lopsided municipal competition. But the 13 coal and ice companies, with the moral support of many a thoughtful Tennessee Valley businessman, were determined to drag Mr. Lilienthal, dead flower in hand, before a high court...