Word: hollyhock
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...author who laboriously examined these questions: Is love 1) a rainbow, 2) the morning star, 3) the evening star, 4) "a miracle which shines around the cradle of the babe." 5) "something which shines round the quiet tomb?" Is a motorcar 1) a bag of potatoes, 2) a hollyhock, 3) a flying cloud, 4) the sound of the sea? That these questions are likely to be received with awe instead of derision is largely due to the fact that the author was Ivor Armstrong Richards, a founder of the modern science of semantics (the meaning of language...
...Wood's picture book was called How To Tell The Birds From The Flowers (and other Wood-cuts). In it he professed to find philosophical and pictorial resemblances between the crow and the crocus, the hawk and the hollyhock, the pea and the pewee, the rue and the rooster, the pecan and the toucan, many others. After 21 years and 17 editions, the book is still in print. It sells about 600 copies a year. Dr. Wood occasionally checks up on sales in department stores, to make sure that his publishers (currently, Dodd, Mead & Co.) are sending him enough...
...good stained glass, covers eight typewritten pages, can "go wrong in 40 ways," comes out striated with layers of green and white beneath the red. To approximate the colors with which pious artisans glorified God at Chartres and Poitiers, Artist Saint has cooked up messes of egg-yolk, hollyhock, calendula and portulaca. To get a certain yellow, Mr. Saint boiled a cow's hoof, as a medieval manuscript directed. So noisome was the process that Artist Saint had to yell for his sons to carry the bubbling hellbroth away...
...Kinston, N. C., William Alston's goat in seven days ate the following: an automobile seat, a hollyhock row. a pair of pyjamas, two days' mail, 17 hens' nests, a prayer book, three rows of assorted flowers. On the eighth day William Alston slew his goat, gave it to a Negro family. The family ate the goat...
...Betting on horse races." Major Beith remarked, "is conducted in England in much the same fashion as bootlegging in America. When you want to lay a wage on a horse you say 'carnation' or 'hollyhock' to indicate 'five pounds' or 'ten pounds' just as in America I understand one says 'orchestra' or 'balcony' when one is ordering spiritual refreshment from a bootlegger...