Word: lilac
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Fenway, continuous-"Lilac Time". A distinctly unsound sound picture. Don't stand in line to see it whatever you do, although the accompanying movie Tone and Vitaphone is good...
COQUETTE?Helen Hayes making every-one cry in a play that contradicts some of the lilac legends about boys and girls in Dixie (TIME...
...well-sleeked motor purred into London last week, its hood piled high with sprays of lilac, armfuls of bluebells. As the car sped down Whitehall, slowed, turned into Downing Street, passing Londoners smiled at the genial Briton who beamed from the tonneau upon the world in general. It was like Premier Baldwin, the Londoners told each other, to go motoring in the country for a few days, recreate himself thoroughly, and then return to grapple with the coal strike, which continued last week despite the calling off of the great "general strike" (TIME...
...years ago, was C. Curtis Woodruff Jr., sprinter. When he was graduated he went into the contracting business with his father in Forest Hills, Long Island. One warm evening last week he came home from work and began to play with his dog "Spot". The dog dodged behind a lilac bush, raced around the house; Sprinter Woodruff dashed after him. An hour later his father found his body crumpled on the floor of the garage, dead. The run had been too much for his heart...
...December evening through which the 19th Century was creeping at last to its grave, a silver-haired gentleman of broken but distinguished appearance made his way from the Grand Avenue Hotel of Enid, Okla., to the corner drugstore. He purchased lilac perfume and headache powders, enough to keep his head steady on "a long trip." Next day the hotel porter thought he heard a groan through the locked door of the old gentleman's chamber. The door was burst in time for a doctor and two others to hear a stertorous voice say: "I am--am--John Wilkes-- Booth...