Word: flower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Victor Aloysius Meyers, jazzband leader who campaigned for Mayor of Seattle last winter on a platform of flower boxes for all fire hydrants (TIME, Feb. 8), was elected Lieutenant Governor of Washington...
...secrets wholly unlike those of the U. S. police, form a pleasantly lurid fable in which the Paris gendarmery is faced with the improbable task of snaring a rogue whose nastiest proclivity is for turning his enemies into statues. This rogue (Gregory Ratoff) abducts a happy and prosperous flower girl (Gwili André), murders her aged father and plants evidence to incriminate her pickpocket lover. Then, in his shadowy chateau, he sets about hypnotizing her into a counterfeit princess, since he needs one for dishonest purposes. The prefect of police (Frank Morgan) is clever. He sets the pickpocket free with...
...when the curtain went up at the Hollis, the flower-girls shouted their lovely and ethereal opening chorus, "List and Learn," too heartily and too fast; and the Gondolieri sang "Buon' giorno, signorine" like students at a Biergarten, "We're called Gondolieri" came off with speed and good-spirits, but without the whirling, infectious momentum that the song is capable of. In contrast to the chorus, the contadine Tessa and Gianetta showed from the moment that they were picked out of the crowd of flower-girls by the blindfolded young men that they were going to make the most...
...station wagons, a touring car and a four-piece band proceeded up & down the island making naive, earnest little speeches at village corners. Mrs. Whitney's hunter took a ribbon at the Piping Rock Horse Show. Republican Bacon's wife won two ribbons for table decorations at the Westbury Flower Show. The arch-Republican Herald Tribune reported the Whitney campaign on its society page. The Bacons gave a political tea party for 700 members of the Nassau County Federation of Republican Women. Last month at the home of the W. 0. N. P. R.'s vivacious Pauline Morton Sabin...
...Their Majesty's four sons the Duke of Gloucester is the most diplomatic. Asked "what is your favorite flower?" he adroitly replied. "Flowers of all kind appeal to me." Their daughter, Princess Mary (now the Princess Royal) is known to be devoted to her husband, the spindle-shanked Earl of Harewood. despite a local conviction that he drinks to excess. Most satisfactory of course are the Duke & Duchess of York, except that their two children are girls, Princess ("Baby Betty") Elizabeth and Princess Mary Rose...