Word: flower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Long years ago he strummed a reverent guitar while hymns were sweetly sung by "The Little Flower" of Lisieux. famed Thérèse Martin who died in 1897. Later M. Chéron was six times Mayor of Lisieux in Normandy, zealously promoted the I. S. L. F. (International Society of the Little Flower). In 1925 the Society and M. Chéron knew boundless joy when Thérèse of Lisieux was officially canonized in Rome as St. Thérèse of the Infant Jesus...
...Hilton locked out over the floor crowded with the flower of Boston's womanhood. "Well," he reflected, "as I often say to my wife, I can't blame the boys for cutting up a bit at these debutante parties, there isn't much temptation for them to dance...
...sometime military instructor to the troops & officers of China's "Young1 Marshal" Chang Hsueh-liang, the very troops & officers who were defending Shanhaikwan last week. Less than two years ago some of the Chinese officers sent popular Major Ochiai a floral tribute of chrysanthemums, Japan's imperial flower. Last week posies were forgotten...
...tailor of Konnersreuth in northern Bavaria. Never over-zealous in the practice of her faith, she was blinded and paralyzed in 1918. after helping extinguish a fire in the house where she was employed. On May 17. 1925, the canonization day of St. Therese of Lisieux (''Little Flower"), Fraulein Neumann regained her sight. Eight days later she called for the priest of Konnersreuth. When he arrived she arose and walked. Later in the year she was taken ill with what a doctor diagnosed as purulent appendicitis. Against his protests she went to church, was well the next...
...French. Observers agreed last week that the presence of white-headed General Hans Kundt, onetime German imperial staff officer and de facto dictator of Bolivia, on the jungle battlefront of the Gran Chaco was worth at least 5,000 men to Bolivia. Following the hysterical, flower-strewn welcome to him in La Paz three weeks ago, a huge airplane was seen circling over the battlefield last week. Open-mouthed Bolivianos in their steaming trenches told each other that it was El Aleman, the German-there is only one German to the army of Bolivia. Immediately thereafter La Paz reported that...