Word: flowers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flower of the field, so he flourisheth...
...Cole believes that "children are wonderful," that a teacher's main job is to free them of fears and inhibitions, bring out their natural sense of rhythm and beauty. "Art," says she, "has been emasculated by adult flower arrangers." In teaching her pupils painting, platemaking, block printing, dancing, writing, Mrs. Cole urges them on with the same admonition: "Swing!" Other Coleisms...
Happiest man in the whole show was Jimmy Walker. After returning from abroad, halfheartedly practicing law while his wife ran a flower shop, conducting a short-lived radio program, he was back in the world of headlines, photographers, wisecracks, still the popular idol of many a New York City voter. Dressed in a natty, double-breasted grey suit, with a white shirt, black shoes and blue socks, a speck of white handkerchief peeping from his breast pocket, he was five minutes early on his first day at work...
...Gundicar and Gunderic, who, coming from Germany, carved a kingdom for themselves in the bosom of degenerate Gaul. In the summer he pruned his grapevines, hunted Germanic relics on his land, and penned iambic attacks on the Latin descendants of those Gauls who finally crushed the flower of Burgundian knighthood...
...long, narrow, oak-paneled Liberal Smoking Room (No. 497), and set about considering the strategic possibilities of eastern Canada and the northeastern U. S. The proposed lease of British bases to the U. S. was largely outside their bailiwick. Asked what he expected of the conference, the Little Flower of Manhattan snapped: "Results...