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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three months, as the Government has struggled in the deepening morass of Britain's troubles, Winston Churchill has thrived on the confusion of his Laborite adversaries. His temper has shortened, his glower deepened and his oratory come to full flower again. He no longer talks about turning over his captaincy to a younger man. Some optimistic Conservatives have brightened; perhaps, after all, there is an immediate future for the Tory Party...
...Anti-Semitism: "People forget, or rather do not want to know, that our God made man is a Jew . . . that His Mother is a Jewess, the flower of the Jewish Race; that all His Ancestors were Jews; that the Apostles were Jews, as well as all the Prophets; finally that our holy Liturgy is entirely drawn from Jewish books. . . . Anti-Semitism ... is the most horrible blow yet suffered by Our Lord in His ever continuous Passion...
Hats were not so bad. Most of them actually looked like hats. The freaks of 1946 were gone. Naturally, if a woman wanted to, she could still manage to get loaded down with a bowlful of fruit or a portable flower garden. But most husbands could see their wives in a Walter Florell lace halo or a Sally Victor straw without reaching for something to swat it with. Straws (from the Far East, Milan, Panama) were back in quantity, and popular...
...went sightseeing. In the morning he took a 2½-hour jaunt in the Sacred Cow, peered down from 13,000 feet at smoking Paricutin volcano. After that, reddening in the sun, he drove 30 miles to view the archeological wonders of Teotihuacan, ate lunch in a flower-walled tent, and marveled at the ancient Temple of Quetzalcoatl...
Long Stems, Big Prices. Detroit's Ferry-Morse Seed Co., which claims to be the "world's largest producer and distributor" of vegetable and flower seeds, introduced a sweet pea called the Cuthbertson, notable for long stems and resistance to summer heat. Manhattan's Max Schling Seedsmen, Inc., the Tiffany of seed houses (it once got as much as $10 for a packet of delphinium seeds), offered a "Tyrian pink and yellow" dahlia at $15 for a single tuber...