Word: irises
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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A year ago that now-piddling total would have seemed fantastic to U.S. shipbuilders. But this was 1942, year of need. Some yards broke records. Some yards expanded like mushrooms overnight. Some builders bettered the Commission's 105-day schedule for building Liberty Ships. Bethlehem-Fairfield Yard at Baltimore...
In Washington, President Roosevelt could see spring right outside his office. Near his window a white jasmine shrub was beginning to blossom; pansies popped their bright faces around the brooding State Department rookery. The cherry trees budded around the Tidal Basin-except for the four sawed down in December by...
She hires the town's best criminal lawyer (Adolphe Menjou), a "simple, barefoot mouthpiece" who knows no law but does know juries, enjoys the run of her jailhouse, overcomes the headline competition of Two-Gun Gertie (Iris Adrian) by professing to be with child, stampedes the jury into freeing...
To design, enlarge and print their photomural, the FSA photographic unit took three months. California moppets were so greatly enlarged that the iris of a single child's eye is now larger than the original photograph of the entire group.
When a man murders his wife to get her money, the crime may be labelled 'social pathology'," Hooton remarked. "But if a man takes an axe and chops Iris wife and all of his children into bits, he is commonly adjudged to be crazy or mentally deficient." The same definitions...