Word: flowers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Commissar's agents, who has been lurking in the studio doubling as an usher, grabs her and backs out of the studio with Lorna at the point of a gun. Promptly a city-wide search is begun during which Lorna reveals her presence in a flower shop by blinking out a bit of code with the florist's neon lights. Finally released, a little groggy from sniffing Lewisite gas,* Lorna winds up her stint by getting back the plans, telling her boy friend, the MBS announcer, that "faith and love will always endure." This week: Lorna Prevents Saboteurs...
Among Japanese esthetes there is a pretty distinction. On the one hand are those who study purely Japanese culture, lovers of No and Go (respectively formal drama and classical checkers), amateurs of the Thurberesque cartoons of Twelfth-Century Toba Sojo, appreciators of verse by the formal Hitomaro, experts in flower arrangement, tea-brewing and fish-breeding. On the other hand are the assiduous, tough-minded students of Chinese culture, whence sprang the Japanese culture which is now being foisted back on China. The former are generally peace-loving, stay-at-home liberals; the latter are nationalistic fire-eaters...
...Wadsworth Busk '16, Henry L. F. Kreger '16, David P. Morgan '16, Walter W. Weld '16, Alexander Winsor '16, Robert Baldwin '17, Graham B. Blaine '17, Clement K. Stodder '17, S. Abbot Smith '18, William B. Snow '18, Thomas D. Cabot '19, Francis A. Caswell '19, Henry C. Flower, Jr. '19, Francis W. Hatch '19, Frederic K. Bullard '20, Frederic C. Church, Jr. '20, Richard Saltonstall '20, Edward L. Bigelow '21, Henry H. Faxon '21, Dwight P. Robinson...
...flaked white fish, rice, hardboiled eggs. He is a cheese connoisseur, but likes ice cream to the point of second helpings. He honestly likes hot dogs. One Scotch highball at teatime is his usual ration, but on a night out he ups that limit: often at banquets the flower vases before his place conceal as many as four Old-Fashioneds, which he downs before one can say "Jack Garner...
When the Belgian surrender fatally exposed their left flank, the British, who were falling back from Arras-Cambrai to Lille, crossed the Lys River to Ypres and formed the east wall of an escape corridor along the Yser Canal to the sea. The flower of their Army, the proud Guards regiments-Coldstream, Grenadier, Welsh, Irish, Scots-had to let their line fold back from the southeast while their artillery and remaining armored units covered the rear...