Word: flowers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York City, Congressman Fiorello ("Little Flower") H. La Guardia, flamboyant campaigner, Wet, contested for the Republican nomination for Mayor with William M. Bennett, Dry. In the count there were nearly four La Guardia votes for every Bennett vote. Yet the total vote cast was not much over 80,000 compared to 714.000 votes cast for Herbert Hoover last November. Democrats used the figure to show how hopeless would be Mr. La Guardia's chances of performing the miracle of defeating silk-hatted Mayor James John Walker. Undaunted, little Mr. La Guardia made answer that he had not tried...
Scarlet Pages. A lamentable victim of bad drama is Elsie Ferguson, surely one of the most genteel and talented of players. In recent years she has several times displayed her auburn sightliness (The Moon Flower, The Grand Duchess and the Waiter, The House of Women), only to learn that the chords of life which she interpreted were dissonances. In Scarlet Pages she appears as a capable woman lawyer to whom appeals a cabaret girl who has killed her father because of his incestuous attempts...
...stoned at a white bathing beach; next day 30 blacks were maimed in the city's worst race riot. Alfonse Capone came from New York with a scar on his face. Dean O'Banion, onetime acolyte, draft-dodger, said "Hello" to two strangers, fell slug-riddled in his flower shop. Mayor Thompson took some friends down the brown Mississippi, washed water over levees, was shot at. "Just yesterday" Capone was jailed in Philadelphia. "For God's sake," says Chicago, "what does it matter who sits in the City Hall...
Nominee Pollard, of the ninth generation of Virginia Pollards, is a quiet, meditative man of 58. His eyes twinkle, his lips smile with scholastic humor. At Williamsburg he dwells in a middle-class wooden house in the faculty group, tends a flower garden in the rear, forgets to answer the supper bell. He served his State one term as Attorney-General...
Nearby stood a man with iron-grey hair and a flower in his buttonhole, Solicitor John G. Carpenter, whose legal duty was to send as many of the defendants as possible to the electric chair. Outside the railing sat some 200 spectators, mostly mill workers in their shirt sleeves, women with babes-in-arms, students from the University of North Carolina. The thermometer stood at 90°. Informal was court procedure. Said Judge Barnhill: "We're not much on ceremony in North Carolina but we do manage to get dignity...