Word: flowers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Called a "Portrait of America," its 20 prizewinners painted languid river and country scenes, flower vases, Negroes at play. Only one of them even hinted that the U.S. had been...
...last week, things looked up sharply. President Prescott landed his first big contract - a $200,000-a-year deal with California Flower Shippers to fly flowers from California to Chicago at $1,440 a planeload. Said Prescott: Skyways should now be able to expand in a more dignified fashion...
...crowded, flower-bedecked salons of Paris' top couturiers, the first big postwar showings of the new fall fashions have been going on day after day. Despite a shortage of materials and the low state of the French economy, "collections" were nearly as large as prewar. Most designers had extravagantly used far more material for their models than any U.S. designer would dare use under the dying WPB's austerity regulation L-85. Last week, as pictures of the new models arrived in the U.S., designers scanned them to see what was up and what was down...
...Flowers. A writer expressed the belief that Americans wanted to understand Japan better. The art of ceremonial tea-making and flower arrangements, he said hopefully, were "in fashion among the society class of America...
General Anami was a military mystic. He once called on Japan's soldiers "to defend the Imperial land even after death with your souls." When he heard the news of his son's death in battle, his only visible emotion was to crush a flower bud in his hand. He held out against surrender. Before committing harakiri, he wrote a farewell to his Emperor ("I humbly beg . . . pardon ... for my great sins") and a poem...