Word: magnolia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...story. When Jackson was the first U. S. President of the "common people" (1829-37), the fine ok southern mansion was the political centre of the land. Later it served its owner as a refuge from political storms. "Old Hickory" and his Rachel lie buried nearby under a huge magnolia. In 1856 his adopted son sold it to Tennessee for $48,000. Now it is valued at a million...
...issuing from the lips of Laura La Plante, sings "My Bill" and "I Can't Help Lovin' That Man." Of the progress of the showboat, Cotton Palace, down the river, Director Harry Pollard has made a picturesque, oldfashioned, tedious melodrama, full of conventional photography and exaggerated acting. Magnolia (Laura La Plante), an awkward young woman with a long jaw, elopes with Gaylord Ravenal (Joseph Schildkraut) in a rowboat. Later she becomes a great actress, though this is hard to believe because Miss La Plante is such a bad one. Best shot: the play given on the stage...
...importance even the published in 1926. With the entry of the United States into the War the Colonel became the channel of unofficial communication between the governments of the associated powers and President Wilson. By a private telephone connecting the State Department with his study in New York or Magnolia, Colonel House communicated suggestions and advice to President and Cabinet. To him rather than to the accredited diplomats turned Allied statesmen who wished Wilson's ear. "Balfour, speaking for the British Government, could get an answer from President Wilson, if necessary, within a few hours," by cabling directly to Colonel...
...least of his considerable share of the labors was to foster his cordial relations with European and Asiatic diplomats, all of whom held him in high esteem and gladly gave him their confidence when they feared his austerer chief. "All roads lead ultimately to Magnolia" (House's summer place), said Northcliffe...
...deer frisk white tails in place of the western black. For lodgepole pines and wind-torn spruce, are substituted every variety of tree and shrub that one would find in a trip from Georgia to the St. Lawrence-including flourishing chestnuts (now moribund from Pennsylvania north), holly, magnolia, the rare yellowwood, giant hemlocks, 30-ft. huckleberry bushes, acres of mountain laurel, rhododendrons with 18-inch trunks. Only lately have the Great Smokies been accurately mapped, and then a plane had to fly back and forth over them for days. There are no roads yet through the heart of the region...