Word: orchid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Orchid...
...proudly as he flaunts the orchid in his buttonhole, mighty Manhattan Lawyer Samuel Untermyer flaunts his Jewish blood. The skill which earns him fattest fees he gives gratis to the Jewish crusade to boycott German goods until Adolf Hitler's anti-Jewish campaign shall end (TiME, Nov. 13 et ante). Last week found Boycotter Untermyer a passenger on the cruising S. S. Monarch of Bermuda. Down to the dining saloon he prowled to inspect arrangements for the Captain's dinner. To his horror he found paper caps, paper flowers, tin rattles, fish horns, surprise crackers, rolls of confetti...
...Doktor, bewildered, trying to shield himself by waving his violin case, his wife resolutely crying: "No! No! No! No interviews!" At length the Einsteins climbed into the tug, chuffed off to the Battery where an automobile waited to take them to Princeton. Meanwhile, on the Westernland's pier, orchid-raising Lawyer Samuel Untermyer stood with a bouquet of his blooms as head of a welcoming committee appointed by bumbling Mayor John Patrick O'Brien...
...helped rid his State of an acute pain in the pocket book. All week in his Manhattan apartment he had continued conferences between the city's bankers, officials of the New York Stock Exchange and prognathous Mayor John Patrick O'Brien. The last, counseled by orchid-wearing old Samuel Untermyer, persisted stubbornly in his proposal to pile a city tax on top of the Federal and State taxes on stock transfers, and a 5% tax on brokers' gross incomes on top of that (TIME, Oct. 2). The brokers, suddenly awakened to the weight of their State taxes...
...England, properly chaperoned, to get married. Rawboned Violet was no less characterful than Talbot, and even on this first trip they had stormy times. But she never tried to domesticate him. Soon after marriage they went off to Burma and the Malay Archipelago to find new types of orchid. When the Great War came, Talbot, too old for active service, got a coast guard job cruising off Ireland; they bought a house and settled there. After the War Talbot went off on another expedition by himself, to Africa, and was taken ill there. But usually they went everywhere together. Once...