Word: flowers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...show how Americans are made to "want something new," the U.S. businessmen explained their exhaustive market research and sales training methods, and displayed some visual sales aids (e.g., a pocket-sized refrigerator, colored seeds that show what color the flower will be). All of this market information is available, they told the Britons, if they only go after...
...mill, and separated from it by a piece of tumbling New England hillside, was a blacksmith shop. Once in a while a short man in an apron would come and hammer resonantly on the anvil; then he would go back across the hall to continue his conversation with the flower girl. On the lawn in front of the shop, a Radcliffe freshman was selling horse shoes for the benefit of the Children's Hospital...
...Massachusetts Horticultural Society held it annual Flower Show last week in the Mechanics Building in Boston. By Friday, a few of the flowers were drooping a bit, but most of the show was intact. On our way in we stopped to read a notice entitled "License of Concert or Entertainment on the Lord's Day" which was posted near the entrance, and we discovered that the Flower Show "must not be advertised by pictorial posters or placards of an obscene nature" and further, that no person attending could "wear a head covering which obstructs the view of another spectator." Since...
...organ playing something out of "Finlaudia," and found ourselves in the midst of booths and displays for an incredible number of organizations, herbaceous or otherwise. Besides the purveyors of gardening supplies, who were selling everything from tractors to Hokinsonesque sun hats, there were representatives from the New England Wild Flower Preservation Society, the Blood Drive, the American Gourd Society, a company selling aluminum window frames, and the Encyclopedia Britannica. And it being St. Patrick's day, we were pleased to see that someone had included a model of an Irish Thatched Cottage...
...wall, a few drill sergeants here and there are fighting a magnificent rearguard action. When "positive swearing" fails to impress their rookies, these dauntless bulldogs fall back on the finer, far-more-difficult art of "negative swearing," i.e., not swearing at all. This art is shown in its finest flower by the following little story, told by a desperate physical instructor to his squad...