Word: flowers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thomas Franklin Millard, long resident in China as the meticulous and widely quoted correspondent of the New York Times cabled a moving story: "A Chinese widow whose livelihood depends on a small flower shop in Bubbling Well Road, Shanghai, had one son, aged 14, who used a bicycle to deliver flowers to foreign residences outside the settlement. The boy was returning home when he picked up a poster, and was seized by soldiers and his head cut off instantly. Today the mother when she learned of it was prostrated with grief...
...ecclesiast spoke. "I hope," he said, "that this girl will grow into womanhood, ripe and rich, to spread her teachings and faith as beautifully as the flower promises...
...line sketches to the medium of words: paradoxically enough, he uses the medium of letters. All through the book are little pen drawings built up of alphabetic script distorted to form pictures. Here too, humor pops up without warning, notably in the sketch of a whirlwind going up a flower. In short, he who reads "The Candle in the Cabin" will find psychological symbolism verging on the profound and subte wit verging on the hilarious...
Next day, in protest against the killing of two Socialists by Fascists in a tavern brawl near Loipersbach, the well and widely organized Socialist party ordered a "general strike" lasting 15 minutes. From 11:00 a. m. to 11:15 a. m. flower girls would not sell flowers, tram drivers would not drive their trams, many bank clerks banged shut their windows, and all telegraphs, telephones and radios were silent. Only taxicab drivers, irrepressible, defied the general strike order and buzzed back and forth with their fares...
...described one. The formula was enough to discourage the most boldfaced charlatan that ever sold canal water for a cureall. Elixir of life contains: "That which is tempered in the fourth degree . . . gold "That which swims in the sea . . . pearl. "The thing that grows in the air . . . a flower. "That which is cast up by the sea . . . ambergris. "A plant of India . . . aloe. "That which is in the vitals of a long-lived animal . . . a bone growing in the stag's heart. "The two snakes which are the food of the Tyrians and Ethiopians...