Word: hibiscuses
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...megalopolis find wistful appeal in a report that the town of Arcadia "has sounded taps for the last chicken farm within its limits," or that in La Puenta a "gargantuan battle raged over the bougainvillaea, the rose and the iris," candidates for the town's official flower (the hibiscus, a dark horse...
...fire escapes still there, something was obviously wrong. It seemed incredible to be still at Radcliffe and live in a place that could be made distinctively one's own. (Jane Cummin, of course, tried to do this in her dormitory room with shower curtains, gold foil and a hibiscus.) Some residents, basking in their new privacy, even congratulated themselves for not knowing each other's name after several months of living on the same floor...
...Henry Fords of Grosse Pointe, Mich., the Arthur E. Pews of Philadelphia and (honorarily) the Duke and Duchess of Windsor-pay an initiation fee of $560, annual dues of $280, and may buy a lot for $70,000 or more on which to build a cottage among the hibiscus, bougainvillea, passion flowers and night-blooming jasmine. The golf course is excellent, and the dockage for the family yacht is 14? a foot per day, $9.80 a foot per year...
Miss Cummin, who lives in a single in Briggs Hall, has placed seven black shower curtains around the walls and gold tin foil on the ceiling. Two black umbrellas hang on one wall, and green fringe from a hibiscus tree in the window...
...decorated it, she said, the room was a "stringy, dirty hair, rainy Monday morning grey." Miss Cummin, who has offered to do any fireproofing the College requires, says she enjoys studying in the room, and that she likes to wake up and see a red blossom of the hibiscus tree reflected on the gold ceiling...