Word: liana
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...prose thrusts up stalks of dracaena, carnations, ger-beras, tulips, coleuses, yaupon, oleander, jasmine, gladioli, magnolia and azalea. Even the characters come equipped with floral borders: Yancey, a condemned murderer, "clutches his hyacinth-red hair"; beautiful Stella thinks of herself as an or chid, is suspended on "a liana of ecstasy...
...coup in sensation-hungry Fleet Street that the Sunday Dispatch tried to run neck and neck by publishing installments from the diary of a second-string hangman named William Willis. But Pierrepoint was so far out ahead that the Dispatch had to fall back on a new serial called "Liana-the Blonde from the Jungle...
...place to live or work in. It's for an old Spanish governor, writing a letter to the king-with a quill pen." He prefers Jajome, the Governor's summer residence in the hills north of Ponce, or his own rented ($52 a month) cottage at Sabana liana, twelve miles outside San Juan...
...July 1947, Tom met Jane Clinton-Baker, daughter of Lady Rosa Agnes Clinton-Baker. On Aug. 20, Tom gave Liana further food for thought. "A month ago," he wrote in a letter, "I met another girl with whom I fell in love the moment I saw her." The Maid of Athens promptly flew to England. Tom met her. "How nice to see you, Liana," he said. Liana did not feel that cozy about it. She threatened to kill herself, she threatened to shoot him, and she finally wound up in a nursing home. Meanwhile, Tom Ridgeway married Jane Clinton-Baker...
Faithful to the English. In court last week, Ridgeway's lawyer tried to hold against her the extravagance of her preparations. Cried he: "The sartorial brilliance of her trousseau might have come from The Arabian Nights" But the jury awarded her ?10,500 damages. In tears, Liana turned down nearly four-fifths of the award and accepted only ?2,200. She said: "I do not want the money. I do not want to ruin...