Word: magnolia
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...letters were not all straight orders. The mayor of Magnolia, Ark., reported that his city had ordered replacements for its city vehicles back in January. But, he said, Chevrolet has not as yet delivered the cars. "This does not look like they are too perturbed about business, does it?" Many cities, agreeing to support Mariani, asked for business in return. Coral Gables, Fla., hoped that Detroit could send more tourists. The burgess of the borough of Phoenixville, Pa., who also works for a boiler company, sent along boiler literature. Orangeburg, S.C., asked the mayor to "anticipate your need for textiles...
Past the veranda of the one-story. frame house runs South Fifth Avenue. It is a narrow, rutted road of yellow clay shaded by oak trees. On the other side of town, beyond Magnolia Street and the county courthouse with its marbled Confederate soldier, runs the avenue known as North Fifth. There stand the great mansions with their porticoes and colonnades and carriage houses. Big Auntie has been there-as downstairs maid and cook on the cook's night out-in the big green house set back from the street by a lawn. Although their names might suggest otherwise...
Eventually, the apparatus was available in the form of a dolphin (rampant), a lion (couchant), or embellished with the "blue magnolia design." ^ In 1900 the Syphonic Closet of the Century was announced. It was clean and decent, but it missed the pungent grandeur of the commode from which Louis XIV announced his forthcoming marriage to Mme. de Maintenon. And it cannot have given its users the satisfaction of the chamber pot, or jerry, available to Britons around 1800, whose interior was limned with a portrait of Napoleon...
...Moon, Pennies from Heaven}, joined in the singing of the Whiffenpoof Song. Surprise Guest Nat "King" Cole sang a few numbers. A hairdresser flitted around spraying hairdressing on falling female locks. General Motors' retired Board Chairman Albert Bradley gazed at the sumptuous decor (2,000,000 real magnolia leaves, real 18th century tapestries), said with a grin: "Maybe I'll take all these decorations and ship them to our next Moto-rama." An elderly lady observed with a sniff that old Henry Ford "wouldn't have liked all this smoking...
...Sound and the Fury. Faulkner's novel turned into a sort of magnolia-strewn Jane Eyre; excellent acting by Joanne Woodward Yul Brynner and Margaret Leighton...