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Finally, on the Greek Easter (last year one week later than our Easter), they reached Corfu. After the misery and death they had seen in the Serbian mountains, the warm lilac-smelling air seemed like heaven. But on Easter Monday, the Italians bombed the old city for the first time in a month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BALKANS: Delayed Dispatch | 2/2/1942 | See Source »

...pictures of Judd Gray and Ruth Snyder, he hired a seaplane, zoomed so close to them as they entered Sing Sing that he almost knocked their heads off. Celebrated was one of his leads about an Indian Princess who got entangled in a murder. Wrote he: "Princess Red Lilac may soon ride the White Man's Thunderbolt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Fight Camps | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

Poughkeepsie turned out en masse to see them motor through: one family chopped 20 ft. out of their lilac hedge to clear the view. At Hyde Park, where the royal standard was flown from the portico, the grueling formality and handshaking ended (the royal hands were swollen). After church on Sunday, where Rector Frank Wilson dryly observed that attendance would improve if all parishioners would bring their guests as Mr. Roosevelt did, the King shed his necktie, ate hot dogs, drank beer (Ruppert's) at a "dream cottage" picnic, photographed the Indian storyteller and singer who performed. Squire Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Here Come the British | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...With the lilacs in full bloom in the Arnold Arboretum, next Sunday has been formally announced as 'Lilac Sunday,' one week earlier than last spring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lilacs Bloom at Arboretum | 5/12/1938 | See Source »

...Fifth Avenue apartment of the Bedaux is at present let to Actress Gertrude Lawrence. It still smells of lilac, a perfume so much liked by Mrs. Bedaux that she has quarts of it always handy, ready to be sprayed about the rooms. On the 53rd floor of the Chrysler Building, Mr. Bedaux's office is done in weathered oak with a medieval monastery effect. According to Manhattan's World-Telegram this week, Mrs. Bedaux has said, "If Charles had horns he would be the Devil," and she used to appear sometimes at parties he gave in Greenwich Village...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: B-Units & Windsors | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

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