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...impress the meaning of words on us," writes Chambers, "the teacher used to draw a column of flowers on the board with colored chalk-a different color for each flower. Opposite each flower was a word. The teacher would point to the word. If you knew it. you were privileged to go to the blackboard and erase the word and the flower. This was called 'picking flowers...
...passionate questions become more & more trivial ("Is barley syrup made from barley?"), the obsessive topics more & more Promethean and miserable ("The cowards, to keep an unarmed man imprisoned upon a rock!"). The books and encyclopedias on his tables are replaced by syringes and bowls, bottles of orange-flower water, gentian, licorice, quinine and calomel. The doctors hover around the bed, urging this & that on the dying dictator, until he shouts: "Shut up, you bore me!'' The conversation is of little else but the sickroom, the Emperor turning and twisting in pain on his iron bed. or hobbling feebly...
...Worcester, Virginia Mistark, a 14-year-old high-school student, waited for more than half an hour to give Taft a yellow daffodil. He smiled and stuck the flower into his lapel. When Virginia remarked that she might be late for class, he took her notebook and penned a note to her teacher: "Please excuse Virginia Mistark for being late. I delayed her. Robert A. Taft...
...tactics as cutting garments with a knife." They plied their trade with stealth, skill and subtlety, and to combat them, the young detective matched skill with skill and stealth with stealth. He soon became as good a pickpocket as the pickpockets. On busy days, like those in the annual flower-viewing season, when the public wandered among spring blossoms, careless of material treasures, Utsugi handled minor felonies by simply picking the pockets of the thieves and returning the loot unnoticed to the pockets of the victims...
Sometimes Utsugi found it necessary to introduce the sordid business of jail. At one flower-viewing he nabbed a thief who had filched a pair of ladies' bloomers, and hauled the miscreant off to headquarters. All in all, he captured close to 3,000 Nip dips, including the acknowledged master of them all, Ito Tamotsu. These incidents were usually conducted in a spirit of professional courtesy. "Ah, Tamotsu," said Utsugi when he copped the notorious Ito with his hand in an alien pocket for perhaps the 19th time, "I have caught you once again." "So you have," acknowledged Tamotsu...