Word: morning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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King Edward on his 42nd birthday morn looked out on a London in which almost every one of his male subjects wore a daisy, buttercup, pansy or garden rose in his buttonhole to honor His Majesty. These simple flowers were worn by Edward VIII's express wish that his birthday should not become a "florists' racket." It was more correct to wear a posy plucked in one's own garden than the costliest gardenia...
...introduction which Mr. Strachey has composed for this masterpiece of radicalism, he urges the reader to believe that the communists are an erudite aggregation who predict revolution without advocating it. One is reminded of the classic morn when Poppea in her arrogance called Cleopatra a courtesan. Indeed, according to Mr. Strachey, it is not the communists who knock off the proverbial chip, but the fat capitalist who grinds down the worker to the depths of poverty and fifth...
Barbara Frietchie & September Morn...
...your revival of interest in the painting, September Morn (TIME, April 8: March 18), I am wondering if any inquiry has been made of the artist as to the source from which he derived his title. It is pure surmise on my part that it came- perhaps subconsciously - from the second line of the poem, Barbara Frietchie. Every school boy knows those first two lines...
...grow the meadows rich with corn, Clear in the cool September morn...