Word: flowers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fiorello LaGuardia was back in New York's City Hall, looking natural but a little handsomer than life (see cut). The city had appropriated $2,500 for the portrait by New York Times Artist-Interviewer S. J. Woolf. If the art commission approves the picture, the Little Flower will be the first ex-mayor to hang in the Hall while still alive...
...knows the signs. When a foraging worker returns to the hive laden with pollen or nectar, she executes a stylized dance proclaiming her success. Fellow workers, by smelling the dancing bee, can tell at once what kind of flower she has been playing around with. Off they zoom hopefully, searching for like-smelling flowers...
...Clare Boothe Luce's Distinguished Gentleman Smelling Flowers, apparently based on an A.P. photograph of Harry Truman deep in a White House flower bush...
...Great Experiment. In his Tokyo headquarters, a palatial oasis of paneled halls, cut-flower arrangements, kimonoed servants and monogrammed silverware, set in a desert of bomb-&-fire rubble, General Douglas MacArthur watched his wards at work. "Satisfactory," was his pronouncement on the election...
Pygmalion. Gertrude Lawrence as G.B.S.'s cockney flower girl who mended her speech as a way to make her fortune (TIME...