Word: flowers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over they danced in the streets, shouting, "Enver Hoxha, Enver Hoxha." The counting would not be completed for several days. But they knew that their future was in the hands of this 37-year-old leader who had learned French as an Albanian diplomat in Belgium, ran a flower shop to mask his activities against King Zog, led the guerrillas against the Italians and Germans...
...York's liveliest and most unpredictable radio shows has been Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia's Talk to the People. Every Sunday afternoon since 1941, over city-owned WNYC, the Little Flower has rasped and ricocheted his way through 30 minutes of the most unorthodox chatter on the air. He left sentences dangling, blithely mispronounced words, skipped syllables when he tantrum-well felt like it. He growled at chiselers, sang sarcastically at enemies, squeaked angrily at hecklers. He read the comics, with expression, and told housewives how to prepare oxtail ragout. All this made lively listening...
...suggestion that he might do commercial broadcasting after retiring, the Little Flower said: "It just wouldn't work out. For one thing, I wouldn't let them censor any of my copy, and I know they wouldn't hold still for that...
Though he had two tough brothers, "Big Gangy" and "Little Gangy," Bummy took care of his own problems. When his opponents were too big he clouted them with a fearsome weapon-one of his mother's stockings with coal stuffed in the toe. For entertainment he dropped flower pots off fire escapes on passersby, and dodged the truant officer...
...flower banquet of the lofty castle in spring...