Word: flowers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York City's hen-shaped Mayor Fiorello ("Little Flower") LaGuardia, after collaring and shaking the shirt buttons off a tall Detroit heckler who dared ask whether Boss Flynn had sent him, toddled back to Manhattan, pitch-piped (to a N. Y. Herald Tribune Forum audience): "Myself, I never...
...Mexico City suburb of Coyoacan, not far from the house where Leon Trotsky was mortally hacked, stands a 25-acre, walled-in estate packed with recreations for a hearty body: a jai alai court, swimming pool, tennis court, club house with reducing machine, paths winding among citrus trees and flower beds, Turkish bath, barbershop, and seven residences for family and guests. Last week this estate was put up for sale for 52,000 pesos ($10,842), about one-tenth its assessed value. The sale and the cheap price symbolized the decline of a hope: the estate was the property...
...diameter of match sticks from .072 to .06 of an inch. Women patrolled Tokyo last week handing out cards to luxuriously dressed people which admonished "right recognition of the present situation in the country." Geisha girls had been instructed not to accompany their clients to the theatre, on flower-viewing trips, or on walks. Actors were told to "exercise self-admonition in acting, refraining from expressions suggestive of loose ideas." Excursion traveling by boat or train was prohibited. Brothels' hours were limited to between 5 a.m. and midnight ; the prostitutes of Tokyo's red-lit Yanagihashi district voted...
...Manhattan's new little Galerie St. Etienne, Anna Moses had her first one-man show. It consisted of 35-odd paintings, nearly her whole output, still primly mounted in the old looking-glass frames from the Moses attic. Sophisticated Manhattan gallery-goers were charmed by her carefully stippled flower beds, speckled snowstorms, shutter-green mountains. Again Manhattan critics raved: "A challenge to scores of more sophisticated painters," compared her canvases to those of famed German exile George Grosz...
...Villain Still Pursued Her" is second on the bill but is its first, and sole, attraction. It is solid, old-fashioned stuff with explanatory asides and soliloquies and even a moral. Anita Louise makes a lovely flower of innocence, but the big black villain (Alan Mowbray) steals the show (his attempts to steal Anita are foiled in time...