Word: flowers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...redoubtable Governors Ferguson (see p. 9) of Texas have solved the knotty problem of man's origin. They perceived that while "evolution" has become anathema among good Baptists, the same flower of evil, though by another name, would smell but half as poisonous. So by administrative fiat it was decreed, and last week Manhattan publishers admitted, that biology textbooks, intended for use among God-fearing Texans, should refer to mankind's "development" and other phases of the ape-to-man theory should be toned down, by deletion or other euphemisms. Thus, 28 pages of a biology text...
...Galena, this cool-headed Yankee pursued his blue-eyed way through school, through Annapolis, on to the Senatorship and Cabinet Portfolio as Secretary of War under Harding and Coolidge. Meanwhile he had become a millionaire-Hornblower & Weeks, bond house. Political observers in 1921 saw for John Weeks a flower-strewn path to the White House...
...soon friends will carry him down a flower-strewn path-to the White House, past it and, again, as five years before, over the green slopes beyond to Arlington...
...Little Flower...
...read with interest your little article regarding the relics of St. Therese, the "Little Flower of Jesus" (TIME, May 10). The footnote states that she was born in 1873 and died in 1879. The second date is, of course...