Word: magnolia
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...fragile magnolia is rangy, fast-talking Helen Douglas Mankin, who beat 17 male opponents. She drove an ambulance in France in World War I, became a successful Atlanta lawyer and five-term veteran in the Georgia legislature...
Thanks to Howard Bay's sets, it never loses its looks. Jan Clayton (Carousel) proves a winning Magnolia, Colette Lyons an agreeable Ellie, Buddy Ebsen a live dancing personality and Ralph Dumke a jovial Captain Andy. And handsome Carol Bruce, tackling the Bill that made the late Helen Morgan famous, brought down the opening-night house...
...better first novel was Adria Locke Langley's A Lion Is in the Streets. It described the political and love life of a Huey Longish character who rose from pack peddler to total boss of Magnolia State. For A Lion, hungry M-G-M paid $250,000-the highest price on record for a novel's movie rights...
Tired Chungking shook off winter's grey chill, admired the flowering plum and magnolia trees, found comfort in the promise of spring. In her eighth springtime of war, China was bearing an accumulated burden of inflation, hunger, disease, political disunity and military retreat. But somehow the nation was still holding together, and the Government of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had come back-a little way-from last fall's near-collapse...
...brave new world that the Fascists had done so much to create, the idea of sanctuary was less & less respected. Powerful pressure might be exerted across the Swiss frontiers. Well might Count Volpi brood upon the thought that by the time this spring's magnolia petals had fallen, he might be a good deal less reflective and a good deal more frightened...