Word: flowers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That the Chinese band carrying strings of firecrackers on bamboo poles, which met them at Shanghai, and the flower girls who escorted the Queen of Spain to her lesson in U. S. student jazz, were characteristic minutiae of the color and folkways observed by students of history, sociology and kindred subjects, at first hand instead of in books...
That was the occasion of Frederic Chopin's first concert. Three years later in Paris, a figure of fashion with white gloves to emphasize his pointed hands, he rode through the Bois de Boulogne in a cabriolet. To late suppers in his rooms, each lady would bring a flower, at the most perfect of which, Chopin, frozen into a temperamental abstraction, would sit for a long time staring...
...FLOWER PHANTOMS-Ronald Fraser-Boni & Liveright ($2.00). Delicate, sensuous Judy made her lover liken her to the loveliest flowers, exotic ones with iridescent stems and golden caps rather than the sturdy blossoms of the fields. She drank in his literary phrases as the plants in her hothouse drank the warm, steamy air under glass. Until she really believed that her true relations should be with fern and tree and flower, not with her practical family and tiresome, boreal Roland. After charmingly imagined conversations with a philosophical water-lily and passionate adventures with an Oriental orchid, however, she turns back from...
...talk in musical Manhattan than of the tall, concentrated, sparse-haired primate of the Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. He gave them Brahm's "Requiem" last week, as personal a thing as ever a German wrote. "Behold, all flesh is grass and all the glory of man is as the flower of the field," sang the Choral Symphony Society and Soprano Elizabeth Rethberg and Baritone Fraser Gange. "Behold," Conductor Furtwangler seemed to say: "This is out of the Bible phrased by that humble countryman of mine, Martin Luther. This music is by another countryman, aged 34, who had lately lost...
Oatheimer also hopes to determine the exact altitude of Tsar Mountain and to make photographs of the creek south of Tsar for the Survey. He also intends to map Tsar Creek, which flower into the Columbia River, and to chart whatever other streams are found in the locality...