Word: flowers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Livery of the Manor. But Hogarth refused, and Hogarth's sister rejected Frankl's amorous advances. Things took place-Hogarth flogged Frankl; Hogarth was convicted, falsely, of murder; Hogarth was sent to Colmoor prison. Rebekah Frankl, beautiful, barbaric, with earrings as big as hoops, flung a red flower with a black heart of passion to Hogarth on his conviction...
...regarded as being friendly to the Administrator *James Hamilton Lewis is "the U. S. political beau." Spats, pink waistcoats, purple handkerchiefs, whiskers of scarlet hue he wears with infinite variety. In his fighting days, he would go to the toughest wards of Chicago, dressed in his gayest, huge flower in his lapel, fat and fragrant cigar in his mouth. His audacity melted the hearts of the toughs- and toughs vote with their hearts...
Moreover, we forget that the selection of the best students justifies itself only when all the other students have been cared for according to their needs. You can raise up an aristocracy of culture, as a sort of flower of society, but it must flower out of society, not be separated from it. An artist like Poe or like Edward MacDowell seems tragic in his loneliness because so few of as countrymen had at the moment anything like the equipment for appreciating his genius. To develop isolated specimens of culture would be a silly ambition, even if it were possible...
...Story. Lavinia Roderick, light of step and heart, the fairest flower of Henrico County, was coming down to dinner in Todd Hundred, Va. For three days a party had been in progress to celebrate her engagement to Gawin Todd. But of all the company which, assembled in the hall, waited for her to descend, it was for Richard Bale that she wore a yellow rose in her bodice-for him that she sang, as she came, the dying fall of a sweet air. He, a Bale of Balisand, had been, like other Virginia gentlemen, a soldier. Fire...
...hoping, with the unpleasant intolerance of Babbitt opinion about chorus girls, that they can ward her off with wealth. By a curious coincidence common to the stage, Sister is in the same cafe with the family chauffeur, and Brother is somewhere downstairs, very drunk, and jealous because his fragile flower is getting her evening's fodder at the expense of two elderly unknowns. By the end of the scene everybody has strayed into everybody's else private dining room and there is a great deal of talk about going to Turkish baths to sober up in time...