Word: flowers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other hand, if such an overall rule were sanctioned Harvard Square florists would suffer a major blow, since they depend upon college trade more than any other block of customers. For many of the flower shops, Harvard business makes the difference between profit and loss. It seems only fair that no blanket ban should be imposed against their goods, for it is really up to an individual to decide whether he can buy or not. And as far as a luxury goes, it is no more than a few movies. The idea of buying defense stamps as an alternative...
...another type of radio drama was in full flower, especially at CBS: the original radio script, with its narrators, its musical "bridges," its fade-outs, fade-ins, sound effects. Daytime serials had long since arrived...
Private Jackie Coogan, ex-husband of Betty Grable, announced that he had separated from his second wife, Flower Parry Coogan, eight months after their marriage, one month after the birth of their...
...twangy, long-necked tambura, a flute spun its single thread of melody. In the traditional Indian dance-forms, the dancers moved hands, arms, shoulders, necks, more purposively than their feet. Lithe, hollow-cheeked Bhupesh Guha became the god of spring, his fluttering hand a bee alighting on a flower to drink honey. Willowy Sushila was the lotus-born Lakshmi, placing buds at the feet of Vishnu, her arms and hands moving with the deliberate grace of a cobra. Bhupesh Guha became a hunter with tasseled spear, stalking the tiger, wary, fleet, then charging in for the kill. His frenzied ritual...
Music. In Chicago, John and Xenia Cage, tired of the old musical sounds, gave a concert with a beer bottle, a barrel, flower pots, an iron pipe, brake drums, thunder sheets, rattles, dinnerbells and buzzers. Mr. Cage played the piano with his elbows...