Word: flower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...child died she began to write. For a time she was one of the Carmel, Calif, literary colony, then built a house at Santa Fe, N. M. Between literary jobs she goes on what she calls "jam-borees," makes enormous quantities of jam, jellies, pickles for herself & friends. Her flower-garden is famed. Other books: Isidro, A Woman of Genius, No. 26 Jayne Street, The American Rhythm...
...left Manhattan because of an acute nervous condition, went to New Haven to be near his son Paul (now in the yacht business), then a student at a nearby military academy. One neighbor, a Flora Calhoun, recalled that as he sat at the piano he always kept a flower, usually a single narcissus, before him. "Narcissus" is the name of Nevin's most popular piano composition...
...somebody better. The Pastoral Symphony tells how a Protestant country pastor takes home a destitute little blind girl to his astounded wife & family. The child is not only blind but apparently dumb, beastlike, filthy. With infinite patience, amazing success, the pastor teaches her to talk, educates her into a flower of intelligence and purity. Naturally she loves him. His affection for her he considers purely paternal, long after his wife & family know better. When his son falls in love with the girl the pastor sends him away. A successful operation is made on her eyes. The pastor is anxious...
...Constable's Garden" and "The Westminster Mystery." The locale of the first is the little county of Brigshire, England; where life is langourous if slightly boring, where there is time for tea between questionings, and where the victim is smothered and the body laid comfortably in a sheriff's flower patch. In "The Westminster Mystery", the reader is caught in the mad rush of modern life. A Hollywood cinema idol is slain and his death becomes the cue for a grisly set of suicides and murder...
Students. Possessed of dignity as well as wealth, Duke does not call itself the Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Yale or Princeton of the South. It is and means to be Duke University, second to none, with the flower of the land coming to it from all the States. The present student body, some 1,200 male undergraduates and some 1,100 students in the women's college and schools of Medicine, Nursing, Law, Religion and the Graduate School, is drawn from 40 States...