Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Orchids grow from Alaska to Argentina in the Western Hemisphere. The best are hardest to find, in the jungled Casanare and San Martin regions of Colombia and Peru. A good man to find them was Swedish-born John Emil Lager, until the U. S. put an embargo on orchids in 1919 because they carry insects. From 1890 until 1908 he ranged South America for the wild strange blooms from which he has grown rare progeny ever since-huge single flowers for debutantes, dowagers and prima donnas; smaller ones for fancy gentlemen; orchids in long sprays, in tiny spidery spikes, some...
...wings, can no longer count on much municipal support. This week Mr. Davison makes his first feint at pocketbooks, by speaking before the New York Advertising Club. Soon he & Mrs. Davison are going to Kenya Colony. Africa, "to see the lions, not shoot them." Their hosts, the camera-wise Martin Johnsons, have two planes which air-wise Mr. & Mrs. Davison may fly for sightseeing...
...Olympia. Wash., Governor Clarence D. Martin last fortnight signed a bill legalizing pari-mutuel betting on horse races, which has been forbidden in Washington since...
...Howard Martin Lawn '34, of Long Branch, New Jersey, has been elected president of the Harvard Menorah Society, it was announced last night. The other new officers chosen at the same time are: Herbert Wilton Beaser '34, of Roxbury, vice-president; Eliot Daniel Canter '35, of Brookline, secretary; and Edward Levy '35, of Brookline, treasurer...
...Martin Opitz," Professor Howard, Sever...