Word: flower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only by subway could you get across town. "It's just one of those things," said tired policemen. People went to the theatre. When they got out they found the parade still going on. Some Chinese waitresses and a group of artificial flower makers tagged the monster procession as it died. Magically the crowds melted. Street cleaners hitched up their belts at midnight as a light rain began to fall...
...surly absentee husband. Sinister Mrs. Forgate, who has a reputation as a husband-poisoner, watches with a cold eye the passionate friendship between her gigolo Antonio and the Keatsian poet Dacbe. Lad Greengable, godlike lifeguard with literary leanings, and Jacqueline, mannish musician, look longingly at Sylvia. Angela Flower (recognizable caricature of Aimee Semple McPherson) shouts hoarse evangelism through cocktail parties. Sol Mosier, neurotic antique dealer, pines for new sensations...
...called the maguey it takes only 15 years or so to store up the energy to bloom. Unblooming, it looks like an ordinary ground-palm: a rosette of long, pointed leaves spreading out from a central core. When its time comes it hastily pokes up a huge flowering stalk, thick as a tree trunk, from 15 to 40 ft. high, tops it with a huge cauliflower sprig with hundreds of little white or yellow tubular flowers. After holding this climax for a month, the tall stalk withers, the whole plant dies. Mexicans commonly intercept the climax by cutting...
...famed octoroon mistresses in the garden behind the Cathedral, handy to a priest for shriving, a doctor for first aid, a cemetery for burying. But Marie Leveau became a hairdresser instead, picked up scandal while she braided great ladies' hair into shapes of towering castles, swans and flower gardens. In semitropical New Orleans the young mature early...
...Detroit Bankers Co., one of the two holding companies-"Detroit Looters' Co." to Father Coughlin. Also publisher of the Free Press, Mr. Stair directs a running editorial barrage against Father Coughlin. "Insull was a piker to E. D. Stair," yelled the priest of the Shrine of the Little Flower, who in October will resume his Sunday broadcasts over 27 stations, and who plans to expand his "Children's Hour" to seven stations...