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...Isaiah 40: 6-8: "The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field...
Ivanhoe (M-G-M). Sir Walter Scott's novel of the days when knighthood was in flower; with Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine (TIME...
...Instead they launched a series of guerrilla attacks back in the Hanoi delta, each an apparently independent operation, except that they all occurred in areas between Hanoi and the sea, the escape route for the French. But in Hanoi nobody worried. Staff officers bought their ladies posies at the flower stalls by the glassy Petit Lac, dined sumptuously at Le Manoir or the Hotel Metropole or danced with taxi-girls at the Ritz and Paramount. At night, beneath their mosquito nets, they listened to the comfortable sound of their own artillery. Said an official spokesman: "There appears...
Where may the new religious movement flower first? "It might not start in America or in any European or Western country," said Toynbee, "but in India. Conquered India will take her matter-of-fact American conqueror captive . . . The center of power in the world will ebb back from the shores of the Atlantic to the Middle East, where the earliest civilizations arose 5,000 or 6,000 years...
...worst confused plant of the Bible is probably the rose. The flower mentioned in Isaiah 35:1 ("and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose") must have been a bulbous plant, probably a narcissus; the original Hebrew word for it means "bulb." Other "roses" were oleanders, anemones, tumbleweeds or crocuses. The biblical "Rose of Sharon" was not the modern rose of Sharon (a kind of hibiscus introduced from China), but probably a tulip...