Word: gardenias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stripper Star disagreed: "It's not dead for me. I make $500 a week. I own my own house in Gardenia, California, and I have a car-all paid for. My parents have a house around the corner from mine. I've got all that and I'm just 21. I think I'm doing all right...
...road; my wife sees all the flowers. Why am I so blind as to think a petunia and a nasturtium look alike, and she so blind that she reads 'I am not rich' as 'I am now rich?' . . . When I call a chrysanthemum a gardenia, just call it ignorance, and not evidence of a repressed destructive wish toward mums, mummy, mammy, mommy and mother...
...Blue Gardenia (Warner) cooks up a better-than-average whodunit out of some rather commonplace movie ingredients: a dead artist (Raymond Burr), a beautiful murder suspect (Anne Baxter), and a dynamic newspaper columnist (Richard Conte) who solves the crime...
...nobody spends a night at the Pops just to listen to music. The gardenia-scented lobby and transformed first floor (chairs and tables instead of conventional scats) bring to Symphony Hall an intimate, informal atmosphere which has been often copied but never duplicated. And when the music starts, competing against the incessant pop of champagne bottles and the gay chatter of the audience, there can be little doubt that the concert is nothing more than a musical party...
Efficiency Check. Canada's present unofficial hangman learned his trade and adopted his name from an earlier Hangman Ellis* who died in 1938. The earlier Ellis worked in a frock coat and striped trousers and sometimes sported a gardenia in his lapel. Occasionally he handed a stop watch to a newsman attending a hanging, so as to check on his own efficiency. His successor, an Ontario farmer, goes in for no such display...