Word: flowers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Desert Flower. Out of this gold-rush rumpus and all the dusty sentimentality of love in the desert, they have made an ice-cream-cone comedy that is as surprising as it is entertaining. The dance-hall den becomes a place of sweet lullabies and softened hearts. The dance-hall girls spread sunshine instead of sin. Colleen Moore is the girl in question, and never was her piquant presence more invigorating. She picks up a tramp, stiffens up his backbone, discovers he is a millionaire's son from the East...
...Social Hygiene, Practical Journalism. Of his strong convictions, one is that a college president should teach classes. What manner of inspiration may be expected by Wesleyan students electing their President's courses next fall, was forecast last week. Said the President-elect: "The honor system is the finest flower of student responsibility. ... [I am] a fan on athletics . . . real preparation for the game of life. . . . [The college's "spiritual tradition"] is a certain indefinable something that is a very definite part of the college, a thing or things which cannot be put in words or which cannot...
Last Sunday, His Holiness Pope Pius XI celebrated the rites for can- onization for Sainte Thérèse, La Petite Fleur (the Little Flower), in St. Peter's Church, Rome. The ceremony began at 8 o'clock in the morning and ended at 2 o'clock in the afternoon; but long before, at 4 o'clock in the morning, street cars, taxis and private automobiles began to move a vast number of pilgrims to St. Peter's. Nearly 70,000 persons crowded into the basilica, being the greatest number that ever assembled there...
...means of electric contacts and restricted passages, Government scientists have discovered that the busy bee really spends most of his time in the hive, instead of performing his function of hymeneal communicant from flower to flower as nature intended. Furthermore, by counting the number of bees and calculating how many trips each one takes during a life-time, the destroyers of popular mythology conclude that each bee does an insignificant amount of work, compared to the noise he makes...
...continues to the end. The writer's attempt to be literary is cen tred on his similes ? one on nearly every page. The prize examples: "He carried his left hand upright like a bouquet and through the bandages a spot of red stood out like a scarlet snow-flower on a mountain slope...