Word: orchid
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ORCHID HUNTERS-Norman MacDonald-Farrar & Rinehart...
Armchair travelers last week could go orchid hunting in South American jungles river hunting in Tibet, spend a winter in a jampacked Eskimo igloo, or the rest of the summer trying to absorb a fraction of the facts packed into the new Guide to Alaska, latest of the Federal Writers' Project series...
Cattleyas. The furtive human shadows who strip rare cattleyas from South American jungles and ship them to stock the hothouses of U. S. orchid growers sometimes gross $25,000 on a shipment. More often they die of malaria or snakebite. To 28-year-old Norman MacDonald & Frank McKay of suburban Nutley, N. J., such odds seemed better than their humdrum jobs (a broker's office, a radio-tube factory). Resolved to hunt orchids themselves, they somehow persuaded U. S. orchid growers to stake them to orders for 6,400 cattleyas from Colombia and Venezuela. When, one Christmas...
Present at the opening of Manhattan's 1939 International Flower Show were two newcomers: Dorothy Thompson (a pearly-blue sweet pea) and Brendo (a white-petaled, crimson-lipped orchid...
...present Miss Hacon is at the Crawford House on Scollay Square where she does two dances; one a fan dance and the other an orchid-dance. She said the idea for the orchids came to her when she was in Chicago one night; she dreamt that she was walking down an avenue completely nude and that fountains on either side sprayed up orchids which fell upon her body, clothing...