Word: flowers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...front-line duty in the Chaco war.' During his political career he has been jailed seven times, exiled six. Once, he was horsewhipped, burned, bayonetted and thrown bleeding on his cell floor. But when other prisoners marched by, he rose, put on his coat and stuck a flower in his buttonhole to show them he was still all right. He collects colonial paintings, admires Harold Laski, and says he is so healthy he can "eat bricks fried in automobile...
...sales emphasis was on flowers. As usual, Philadelphia's W. Atlee Burpee Co., biggest mail-order seed house in the world (1946 gross: $5 million), made the biggest noise. It sent out three million catalogues to push the latest products of its California farm. Items: a yellow-pink snapdragon billed as the "first alldouble snapdragon ever grown from seed" and the "most sensational new flower for 1947"; a pink "alldouble" petunia called the "Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower" ($2 a packet...
...decided that Communists had infiltrated the union. Also, as he began to gain a reputation as a long-winded but conscientious political writer, he began to feel uppity about being lumped with clerks, office boys and stenographers in one union. He quit. The individualist Ball emerged in full flower...
...pressure against the line, whipped up by Communist propaganda and a bitter winter, is growing. There are thousands like 46-year-old Marguerite Saulnier, flower-shop assistant, who says: "Of course, we must get higher wages. What's the good of talking about cutting prices by 5%? In my own store we raised prices by 10% before cutting them five. Anyway, prices would have to be halved before I could buy the proper food for my two children." And like Andre Fourgon, 28, a furniture mover from Lyons: "We ought to make up our minds about the Communists?either make...
...Whined a flower girl on the steps of lamplit St. Paul's Cathedral: "All my flowers shriveled up, and the buds go brown with frost. Politics, I don't understand 'em. It's warmth I want...