Word: flower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cross between Santa Claus and Socrates, M. Chéron is one of the few people in the world who was a friend of a legitimate Saint. Years ago in his native Normandy he used to play the guitar while Thérèse Martin, the "Little Flower" of Lisieux, sang hymns. This intrepid Norman was Minister of Finance immediately after Premier Poincaré's famed stabilization of the franc, served in three cabinets and retired in 1930, leaving a treasury surplus of 19,000,000,000 francs. Because Papa Chéron was never one to become...
Feted in every port, they got their biggest reception in Venezuela. There old Dictator-President Juan Vicente Gomez declared a public holiday, motored them over 300 mi. of flower-strewn highway, spent $20,000 out of his own pocket to give them a luncheon and ball, pay all their expenses...
...21st annual international flower show in Manhattan J. Pierpont Morgan won a gold medal for his tropical Kalanchoe globulifera coccinea; Mr & Mrs. Marshall Field, first prizes for their mignonettes, larkspur, stock: Mrs. Cornelius Francis Kelley, a first with twelve white Antirrhinum spikes...
...agrees to lend them all the Rothschild money. On the morning of Waterloo Rothschild is in a bad way. There is a panic on the London stock exchange. If the market breaks completely. Rothschild will be bankrupt. He pops on to the floor, places in his buttonhole a flower given him by Mrs. Rothschild (Mrs. Arliss) and orders his agents to buy. Presently, there arrives from the battlefield a message that Napoleon has lost. When next seen. Nathan Rothschild is at court with his wife, wondering on which knee to kneel while being knighted. His daughter Julie is engaged...
...their common Americanism. Consequently when Mr. Wade comes to "developments after 1900" he only convinces one that there has been in these years a good deal of miscellaneous activity; he does not persuade one that this activity represents a real growth which in the natural course of things must flower. He leaves one with his knowledge of American literature refreshed and pointed up but as puzzled as heretofore about what precisely is the lowest common denominator of, let us say, Babitt, Spingarn, Brooks and Eliot...