Word: flower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Garden Clubs of America, arriving to attend the Palm Beach Club's annual flower show, were met by "the largest fleet of wheel chairs ever assembled" and trundled off to the conservatory of the Royal Poinciana Hotel, which had been remodeled to resemble the Piazza di Spagna in Rome. Palm Beach alone boasted the presence during the past fortnight of over 100 titled Europeans, including Major General the Earl of Athlone & the Countess of Athlone, Grand Duke Dmitri, Princess Anna Ilynski, Lord Forteviot and Baron & Baroness de Gunzbourg of Paris...
...hills. He called his favorite mountain El Chipote (The Tough Guy), himself "the wild beast of the mountains." His men reverently called him San Digno (The Worthy Saint). When he went into battle he hung extra cartridge belts around his neck, shined up his puttees and stuck a jungle flower into his shovel-shaped cowboy hat. The Nicaraguan Government could not stop him. Five thousand U. S. Marines chased him for five years, killed nearly 1,000 of his followers, reported him dead a score of times but never laid hands on him. U. S. newspapers uniformly called him "bandit...
Throughout the whole of Canada, from Halifax to Victoria, from North Portal to The Pas, there are only eleven commercial banks. Canadian banking is branch banking in finest flower. But Canada is unique in that it has no central bank of issue, no Federal Reserve, no bankers' bank. Last week Premier Richard Bedford Bennett prepared to give the Dominion a quasi-public institution modeled after the venerable Bank of England...
...article by Mr. H. M. Wade on American literature deserves consideration. It is Mr. Wade's contention that there is or that there is about to be a literary renaissance in this country or, as Mr. Wade further qualifies, "a flowering of the American tradition and a rebirth in America of European tradition from which this land stems." Before taking up the flowering, he indicates the tradition which is to flower. Then, after a survey of writers since 1900, Mr. Wade concludes in the second place that there is about to be a renaissance of our civilization. "The facts constitute...
...perverse have been looking. What became of the Bandicoot? No one ever knew. Well, hardly anyone, but a student of biology, casting about through the caverns of Peabody Museum this week, came upon a curious bit of taxidermy. The label, like all Peabody labels, was in flower long before Saki's colonel, and it reads "Broad-Billed Bandicoot." Spurred on by his discovery, the student of biology is now planning to invade Widener's "Books Uncatalogued for Lack of Funds, 1932-1933, 115,000." After all, there are still a few books of Tacitus and Livy unaccounted...