Word: flower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clock: G. R. Dennett vs. D. W. Brown, and C. H. Newton vs. Albert Flower...
...later on a patrol boat, off Cuba during the Spanish War. He sat on the board of inquiry which failed to discover why the Maine sank. During the War he commanded all U. S. subchasers in European waters. He married his cousin, is childless. Ashore he putters around a flower garden, smacks over a dish of boned shad, keeps a voluminous scrap book. Afloat he is a strict but just disciplinarian. He talks in a low, melodious drawl, never raising his voice to match his temper. Slim of stature, smiling of face, he gets his nickname from his sandy...
Into a four-foot trench by the Vodegel's hunting lodge in the Sussex Hills last week were lowered eight small, flower-covered boxes. As the first shovelful of dirt fell down upon them, Frederick Vodegel fired three volleys from his shotgun. That, he explained, was the German farewell salute to noted hunting dogs. On a boulder by the grave will be chiseled the 13 dachshunds' names, above them the word: MURDERED...
...Done Him Wrong is the same tale of an 1898 Bowery flower that was picked often but did not wilt. Impersonated by Mae West, she thrives and collects diamonds with each picking. Mae is picked up by the story as the chatelaine of Noah Beery, a trusting old fellow who runs a cabaret and modest little white slave business. Having a bit of time to spare Mae befriends a young would-be suicidess, visits some ex-beaus who are taking the cure at Sing Sing, juggles with the attentions of Gigolo Gilbert Roland, Racketeer David Landau and Salvation Army Captain...
Half way round the world in Washington, Senator Harry Bartow Hawes, prime promoter of Philippine independence, sat at his flower-banked desk in the Senate Office Building and grinned victoriously. The Senate, following House action week before (TIME, Jan. 23), had overridden (66-to-26) a thumping Presidential veto on H. R. 7233, to free the Philippine Islands...