Word: magnolia
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...things. In one car was a cage with an African parrot and a box of tame squirrels and a hunchback! Everybody, not excepting the parrot, was wrought up to a pitch of intense excitement." As the Confederacy was closing down, a woman diarist wrote in wonderful magnolia prose: "There they go, the gay and gallant few, the last flower of Southern manhood...
...Kissinger has helped focus Ford's views on foreign policy, in domestic matters the President sometimes forgets the larger view now required of him as President. At his press conference, held in the Rose Garden to the accompaniment of a mockingbird in a magnolia tree, Ford candidly spoke his mind and twice got into trouble. Asked about the racial violence in Boston schools, he unwisely said that he disagreed with the court-ordered busing that caused the strife, thus appearing to ally himself with the white demonstrators (see story page 22). Then, asked whether he favored phasing...
...been quietly putting his winnings into a lower octane brand of racing. Last week the three-time Indianapolis 500 champion laid down $21,500 for two thoroughbred colts at the Keeneland, Ky., fall yearling sale. The new additions to Foyt's stable of quarter and show horses in Magnolia, Texas, will be out on the tracks next year sporting A.J.'s red and white colors. "I can't race all my life," says Foyt. "Probably I'll race another three or four years and then own cars, but I'd like to maybe...
...easy to see why. The city remains the black showcase of the nation. Some of America's wealthiest blacks live in suburbs hardly distinguishable from those inhabited by whites. Few white-owned ante bellum homes are more sumptuous than the black-owned mansions surrounded by dogwood and magnolia trees. Atlanta is said to be the only city in the nation that offers bus tours of the black sections of town...
...around a wide chimney. The room is hot and is smoky and full of that sweet sickening smell--like burning beans--peculiar to dirty houses with wood stoves. The plaster is cracking off the walls, revealing in places an old wallpaper from finer days, repeating and repeating a magnolia bordered portrait of your standard columned mansion house, through which irony we may fade...