Word: flower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ambassadors. But Mr. Grew has leaned on this vital prop less than any predecessor. The Embassy is Grew, suave but adventurous "Tiger" Grew. Poker is his game. Japanese music and Japanese flower arrangement are the hobbies of Mrs. Grew, a granddaughter of Japan-opener Commodore Matthew Perry...
...Tennessee Valley Authority is a number of things to a number of people, but to Socialist Norman Thomas it is "the only genuinely socialistic project in the New Deal?a beautiful flower in a garden of weeds." Tenderly cultivated by TVA Director David Eli Lilienthal, the flower budded prettily last summer when Electric Bond & Share agreed, at pistol point, to sell its Knoxville, Tenn. power & light properties to TVA. The pistol was the threat that Knoxville would build its own distributing system with a PWA loan-grant (TIME, July...
...right hand plucking its invisible strings. Directly beneath Orpheus a stylized Cerberus is about to doze off into careless sleep. Around the rim of the fountain nude figures are arrested in various postures by the strains of Orpheus' music. A very young girl in her rapture drops a flower. More mature is a girl who lifts her hands in surprise, turns her head to hear whence the music comes. A third girl turns haughtily as if to resist the spell. Most mature is the woman who was arranging her hair when Orpheus began to play. She suggests a worldly...
Henry Cheron was more than that. He is one of the few men in the world who was an intimate friend of a famed saint. In his native Normandy many years ago Papa Cheron used to play the guitar while the "Little Flower," St. Therese of Lisieux, sang hymns. As Finance Minister in the successive ministries of Poincare, Briand, Tardieu, he helped to keep the franc stabilized after the crucial days of 1926-27, and left with a budget surplus of 19,000,000,000 francs. But ending inflation was a simple matter compared with cleaning up l'Affaire Stavisky...
Daughter of a Chinese laundryman named Sam Sing Tsong, Anna May Wong's real name is Wong Liu Tsong (Frosted Yellow Willows). She grew up on Flower Street in Los Angeles' chop-suey section, attended Los Angeles Central High School. Her ambition to become an actress sprouted when she caught sight of the late Alma Rubens in an elevator. Sam Sing Tsong objected when his daughter got extra jobs on location scenes in Chinatown. Was it not true that every time a picture is taken, its subject loses part of his soul? Nonetheless, Anna May Wong carried...