Word: flowers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nursery Rhymes. After the concert, in the Harris' neat, flower-print-curtained apartment in Chicago's South Side Negro district, Margaret couldn't decide what to do next. She tried playing ball with her father, a railroad machinist; then she went to work on some gum, and showed reporters her dolls. Said she, eyes wide: "There were an awful lot of people there, and at first I was afraid. But I just went over to my piano, and then I wasn't afraid any more." How did it feel when the audience clapped? "Felt good-real...
They pushed and sweated in the heat, gawked at industrial and agricultural displays, baby shows, flower, dog, cat, cattle and horse shows, and at a bulletproof Mercédès-Benz limousine billed as "Hitler's Car." Then they trudged on to look at the latest developments in trains and television. They walked for miles-from a well-advertised Art Gallery nude to the Men's Tea-Making Contest...
Edna asserted her new freedom at once. She insisted on wearing a dashing hat to Mother's burial. It was one of those flower-&-fruit affairs trimmed with poppies and cherries...
...knew. "No sooner was the coffin grounded, than he was up on the brim of Edna's hat, his beak an inch from a purple cherry. . . ." For if Edna was odd, her hat was odder: the "goodness going up through her hair" had turned the trimmings to real flowers and fruit. The rest of the story reports how Edna earned her ?5 a week by exhibiting her unusual headgear in a publicity splurge that would have made Mother turn over in her grave. By the time she had been eclipsed by a woman who had flown upside down...
Surprise! In Albuquerque, N.M., Mrs. William Clayton started to water her flower bed with the garden hose, dropped the thing in a hurry when it turned out to be a sleepy rattlesnake...