Word: flowers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Self-made men have many of them adopted the principle that their sons should go into the factory and "learn the business from the ground up". Thus innumerable scions of wealthy American families have been transplanted from the flower bed of college to the vegetable patch of industry-and usually with beneficial results. Last spring The Nation advanced the theory that the whole body of college students are fit candidates for such stringent routine that they may face the "realities of industrial America." Therefore The Nation offered prizes to undergraduates who should perform manual labor during the summer...
Some forty years ago, Mr. Justice Holmes, a veteran of the Civil War, spoke, on Commencement Day, of the young Harvard soldiers who "tossed life and hope like a flower before the feet of their country and their cause." Later, their comrade in arms, Major Henry Lee Higginson, dedicated Soldiers Field to "alumni of the University and noble gentlemen who gave freely and eagerly all that they had or hoped for to their country and to their fellow men in the hour of great need." The Harvard soldiers of the World War did this. In a sense they did more...
...pork barrel body, huge watchchain (labeled "Profits"), smoking with incredibly gross lips a big cigar (labeled "Luxury"), and crushing beneath its heel a pathetic lizard-sized person (labeled "Consumer"). Since 1905, that figure has appeared more and more rarely, but last week he suffered a recrudescence. He was called "Flower Trust." U. S. Attorney Buckner of Southern New York, brought action under the Sherman Law to dissolve an alleged combination of flower growers in a dozen states and 40 wholesale dealers in flowers. It was claimed this was organized to compel the people of Manhattan to buy only hothouse flowers...
...Beautiful City. Richard Barthelmess and Dorothy Gish are a remarkably popular couple, and this picture will probably be ap- proved. Mr. Barthelmess plays a poor flower vender in Manhattan- which is the beautiful city. He goes to jail to shield his larcenous brother. Miss Gish is an Irish girl. You can fit in the rest of the pieces yourself...
...middle of the second period of the Pittsburgh-Penn game, the Umpire and the Referee saw two players exchanging vigorous fisticuffs, sent both of them off the field. A groan went up from the Pittsburgh stands for one of the pummelers was Fullback "Gus" Gustafson, their flower. But already this nimble Nordic had materially assisted in the scoring of two touchdowns, which was enough to win the game...