Word: irises
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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On Marx's Day, at the beginning of Mary's Month, the soft blue wisteria gushed from every wall in Rome, and the iris raised blue-cauled heads. But it was the lush red cineraria and the harsh Red Flag that really bloomed in Rome. By May Day...
Lombardo has always put on a candy face for powerful Mexican politicos and for "Yankee" reporters, but he has carefully explained his altered tactics to the faithful. In a speech in the Esperanza Iris theater, center for Soviet movies, Soviet Legation entertainment and other propaganda events, Lombardo painstakingly discussed the...
¶ A London peddler, howling unintelligible Cockney among gear groans and horn toots: "Cut iris, cut cauliflower, Yorkshire blue peas and brand new potatoes."
White (E. for Elwyn, B. for Brooks), comes equipped with a slogan: "Federalists of the world, unite!" And he waves a flag, "a wild flag, [the flower] Iris tectorum." In a Whitean dream a Chinese delegate says: "I propose all countries adopt it, so that it will be impossible for...
In the spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove . . .